Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Friedrich Nietzsche and Economics: Research Problems

   • Wolfgang Drechsler

   Pages 1-8

3. The Influence of Nietzsche on the History of Economic Thought

   • Peter R. Senn

   Pages 9-37

4. Nietzsche and Economics

   • Marcel A. G. van Meerhaeghe

   Pages 39-53

5. Creative Destruction in Economics: Nietzsche, Sombart, Schumpeter

   • Hugo Reinert, Erik S. Reinert

   Pages 55-85

6. The Word of Honour

   • Jürgen G. Backhaus

   Pages 87-109

7. An “All too Human” Question: Nietzsche, Die Soziale Frage, and the German Historical School of Economics

   • Sophus A. Reinert, Erik S. Reinert

   Pages 111-135

8. Nietzsche and Business Ethics

   • Marcel A. G. van Meerhaeghe

   Pages 137-143

9. On the Anticipation of Knightian Uncertainty in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals

   • Stephen John Nash

   Pages 145-171

10. On the Nietzsche-Reception in the GDR

    • Ulrich B. Busch

    Pages 173-189

11. Wolfgang Harich and Friedrich Nietzsche — A Chapter of the East German Nietzsche Debate

    • Günter Krause

    Pages 191-207

12. Justice and Economy from Human, All Too Human to Thus Spake Zarathustra

    • Rainer Kattel

    Pages 209-227

13. Democracy and Aristocracy in Nietzsche’s Late Writings

    • Otto Kaiser

    Pages 229-253

Nietzsche – Economy and Society: The Closed and the Open Questions a b Jürgen G. Backhaus and Wolfgang Drechsler a University of Erfurt, Germany b Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Nietzsche’s impact and in?uence anywhere in and on our civilization was and is immense. This has by now been widely recognized in almost all areas, even in the “hard sciences” (see Babich 1999), but Nietzsche is still completely understudied in the ?eld of economics. This is all the more surprising because in?uence paths, both serious (e. g. , Joseph A. Schumpeter) and pop ones (e. g. , Ayn Rand), seem obvious, and because in some of his works, especially M- schliches, Allzumenschliches (1878-1886), a focus on economics is hard to miss. It would thus be only likely that he had some sort of signi?cant in?uence there; yet, one can ?nd hardly any references in the Nietzsche or economics 1 literature on what kind of in?uence that might have been or still is. To remedy this situation, the idea to plan an exploratory conference on Nietzsche and Economics arose. Because of the dif?cult and indeed unusual topic, we found it necessary to even start with a pre-conference, where the issues, questions, sources and possible approaches would be discussed. This pre-conference took place in Heilbronn, in the framework of the Heilbronn Symposia on Economics and the Social Sciences, in June 2000.

• Business Ethics
• Democracy and Aristocracy
• Justice
• Nietzsche Debate in the GRD
• Nietzsche and Economics
• Philosophy
• Schumpeter
• Social Selection
• creative destruction

• University of Erfurt, Germany

  Jürgen G. Backhaus

• Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

  Wolfgang Drechsler

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