"Behind the contemporary highly fashionable Schumpeterian and evolutionary economics towers Nietzsche, his Übermensch entrepreneur and his creative destruction. Nietzsche the economist here comes to us filtered through Joseph Alois Schumpeter via Werner Sombart. As opposed to Sombart, who carefully documented the influence Nietzsche had on him, Schumpeter as usual has held the cards that would have revealed the origins of his own ideas very close to his chest. However, a closer look at the intellectual climate, the general Zeitgeist, and the work of the most influential continental European economist during Schumpeter’s ‘golden period’, his own 20s, shows the overwhelming influence of Nietzsche on all three counts."

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