Reconsiders some of Nietzsche's writings on economics and the science of state. This work considers Nietzsche's historical and contemporary relevance, which has ranged from the highly serious (Schumpeter writings on creative destruction) to the pop cultural (the early works of Ayn Rand)

Joseph Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was one of the foremost economic thinkers of the twentieth century. Today Schumpeter is most well-known for his idea of 'creative destruction'. This is the notion that a market economy is simultaneously creative and destructive and therein lies the process of...

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences -- 1.1. The Research Protocols of Economics, the Ironies That Result from Them, and Other Preliminaries -- 1.2. Adam Smith and Some Nobel...