Joseph Alois Schumpeter : : The Public Life of a Private Man / / Wolfgang F. Stolper.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Stolper, Wolfgang F.,
• MitwirkendeR: Haberler, Gottfried,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5259
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

In this major scholarly study of the life of Joseph A. Schumpeter, one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the distinguished economist Wolfgang Stolper delves into the mind of his former teacher, exploring the development of his ideas and, especially, their influence on politics and public policy. After reflecting briefly on Schumpeter the man, Stolper explains the evolution of Schumpeter's work, particularly his insights during the 1920s on public finance, his contributions to monetary theory and the study of business cycles, and his writings on socialism. Stolper goes on to desribe and evaluate Schumpeter's public activities following World War I and his role as a finance minister, placing the development of his thought in the turbulence political context of his times.Drawing on a vast array of new and exciting sources, Stolper paints a portrait of his mentor as a decent, ambitious, and complex man whose many insights into economy and society found their way outside of the academy and into the practical world of economic policy. All readers interested in the history of economic thought and twentieth-century political and intellectual history will find this book invaluable.Wolfgang Stolper is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Structure of the East German Economy and Planning Without Facts and has made seminal contributions to international economics.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. The Aim of This Biography -- CHAPTER 2. A Brief Curriculum Vitae -- PART I: THE THEORETICAL BASES OF ECONOMIC POLICY: STATICS, DYNAMICS, AND EVOLUTION; OR, HISTORY MATTERS -- CHAPTER 3. Economics as a Science -- CHAPTER 4. Most Interesting Things That Can Be Said about Factor Prices, Money, and Interest Are Dynamic -- CHAPTER 5. Cycles -- CHAPTER 6. Three Formal Models: A Digression -- CHAPTER 7. History and the Theoretical Analysis of Capitalist Evolution -- PART II: SOCIALISM; OR, THE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER 8. Prediction and the Interaction of Economic and Social Change -- CHAPTER 9. How the Definitions of Capitalism and Socialism Follow from Schumpeter's Analysis of the Development Process -- CHAPTER 10. Implications of Schumpeter's Analysis and Societal Reactions against the March into Socialism -- PART III: POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE OUTSIDER; OR, COPING WITH NATIONALISM -- CHAPTER 11. The Crisis of the Tax State -- CHAPTER 12. Political Activities behind the Scenes -- CHAPTER 13. The German Coal Socialization Commission -- PART IV: THE MINISTER OF FINANCE; OR, COPING WITH DISASTER -- CHAPTER 14. Initial Problems -- CHAPTER 15. Public Speeches and Activities in Parliament -- CHAPTER 16. The Finanzplan -- CHAPTER 17. Cabinet Discussion of the Finanzplan -- CHAPTER 18. The Kola Affair and the Socialization of the Alpine-Montan-Gesellschaft -- CHAPTER 19. The Final Days -- PART V: PUBLICIST AND INVESTMENT BANKER; OR, MAKING THE BEST OF IT -- CHAPTER 20. Participant in Economic Policy Discussions -- CHAPTER 21. Bank President and Investment Activities -- PART VI: THE THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF CURRENT POLICIES; OR, TRYING TO PREVENT ANOTHER FAILURE -- CHAPTER 22. Monetary Policies: The 1920s -- CHAPTER 23. Monetary Policy: The Great Depression and the Post-Second World War Inflation -- CHAPTER 24. Fiscal Policy -- CHAPTER 25. Epilogue -- References -- Index