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Schumpeter and Hayek: on Some Similarities in their Thought

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Herbert Giersch, as one of the leading members of the Mont Pélerin Society, founded by Friedrich A. von Hayek, and as one of the leading liberal (or libertarian) economists in West Germany, has always been close in his thinking to the Mises-Hayek tradition of economic philosophy. Yet recently he has become renowned for his enthusiasm for Schumpeter and the concept of the Schumpeterian innovator—the creative entrepreneur.1 Is there not an inherent contradiction in such a double affiliation?

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  1. See Edwin G. Dolan (ed.), The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics (New York: New York University Press, 1976). One might well ask how far the ideas propounded in this volume are either ‘modern’ or representative of the full Austrian tradition.

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  2. Edgar Salin, for example, in the preface to the German edition of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: Harper & Row, 1942), said ‘Schumpeter ist Sozialist’.

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    Fritz Machlup (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

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    Gerhard Fels (Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Structural Change and Economic Growth) (Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Structural Change and Economic Growth)

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Streissler, E. (1983). Schumpeter and Hayek: on Some Similarities in their Thought. In: Machlup, F., Fels, G., Müller-Groeling, H. (eds) Reflections on a Troubled World Economy. Trade Policy Research Centre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06892-0_17

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