Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter xiii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. CHAPTER 1. The Aim of This Biography 1
6. CHAPTER 2. A Brief Curriculum Vitae 6
7. PART I: THE THEORETICAL BASES OF ECONOMIC POLICY: STATICS, DYNAMICS, AND EVOLUTION; OR, HISTORY MATTERS
8. CHAPTER 3. Economics as a Science 23
9. CHAPTER 4. Most Interesting Things That Can Be Said about Factor Prices, Money, and Interest Are Dynamic 41
10. CHAPTER 5. Cycles 58
11. CHAPTER 6. Three Formal Models: A Digression 68
12. CHAPTER 7. History and the Theoretical Analysis of Capitalist Evolution 90
13. PART II: SOCIALISM; OR, THE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM
14. CHAPTER 8. Prediction and the Interaction of Economic and Social Change 105
15. CHAPTER 9. How the Definitions of Capitalism and Socialism Follow from Schumpeter's Analysis of the Development Process 121
16. CHAPTER 10. Implications of Schumpeter's Analysis and Societal Reactions against the March into Socialism 136
17. PART III: POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE OUTSIDER; OR, COPING WITH NATIONALISM
18. CHAPTER 11. The Crisis of the Tax State 159
19. CHAPTER 12. Political Activities behind the Scenes 171
20. CHAPTER 13. The German Coal Socialization Commission 202
21. PART IV: THE MINISTER OF FINANCE; OR, COPING WITH DISASTER
22. CHAPTER 14. Initial Problems 217
23. CHAPTER 15. Public Speeches and Activities in Parliament 232
24. CHAPTER 16. The Finanzplan 249
25. CHAPTER 17. Cabinet Discussion of the Finanzplan 257
26. CHAPTER 18. The Kola Affair and the Socialization of the Alpine-Montan-Gesellschaft 268
27. CHAPTER 19. The Final Days 289
28. PART V: PUBLICIST AND INVESTMENT BANKER; OR, MAKING THE BEST OF IT
29. CHAPTER 20. Participant in Economic Policy Discussions 297
30. CHAPTER 21. Bank President and Investment Activities 306
31. PART VI: THE THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF CURRENT POLICIES; OR, TRYING TO PREVENT ANOTHER FAILURE
32. CHAPTER 22. Monetary Policies: The 1920s 329
33. CHAPTER 23. Monetary Policy: The Great Depression and the Post—Second World War Inflation 339
34. CHAPTER 24. Fiscal Policy 349
35. CHAPTER 25. Epilogue 370
36. References 379
37. Index 389