IN THE EARLY JOSEPH ALOIS JULIUS SCHUMPETER'S FOOTSTEPS - MARRIAGE, TRAGEDY AND EMIGRATION

IN THE EARLY JOSEPH ALOIS JULIUS SCHUMPETER'S FOOTSTEPS - MARRIAGE, TRAGEDY AND EMIGRATION

At the age of 42 Joseph Alois Schumpeter married the 20 years younger Anna (“Annie”) Josefina Reisinger. Joseph Schumpeter is looking forward to being a father, and the couple have a child, Joseph, but both Annie and the baby dies during confinement. The tragedy is a fact, and Schumpeter loses the j...

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Main Author: J-U. Sandal
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Publishing Center "Kyiv University" 2015-10-01
Series:Vìsnik. Kiïvsʹkogo Nacìonalʹnogo Unìversitetu ìmenì Tarasa Ševčenka. Ekonomìka
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The article analyzes the important events in Schumpeter’s life and its importance to scientific development in economic theory. Theorie der wirtshaftlichen Entwicklung (English title
The Theory of Economic Development) was first published in 1912. After emigration to Harvard in 1934
the third edition was translated into English and opened up for a broader readership worldwide. However
the seventh chapter was omitted from the second and third edition
which formed the basis for the translation into English. It is a fact that the English version of 1934 in turn has served as the basis for translation to many other languages. How well known and understood was actually Schumpeter’s innovative and independent scientific contribution from his early days
and what are the consequences of the Lost Chapter in economic theory? The author of the article walks in the early Schumpeter’s footsteps by visiting places where the famous economist used to live and work
and thereby making interviews with key persons on sites to analyze the background for the historical development in economic philosophy. The article concludes that personal freedom
especially in connection with wage labor and market profit are preconditions for scientific independent activity
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