Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) and Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950) were two thinkers who worked in different periods and different disciplines. Following his severe mental collapse in 1889, Nietzsche was unable to continue his philosophical work. Schumpeter was only six years old at the time. Therefore, a personal encounter between the two thinkers was not possible. Nevertheless, there are philosophical affinities between Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch and Schumpeter’s

The Philosopher Who Looked Beyond Capitalism Few thinkers anticipated the dilemmas of twenty-first-century political economy as clearly as André Gorz (1923–2007) did. Born in Vienna as Gérard Horst, Gorz became part of post-war France’s intellectual milieu, writing for Les Temps Modernes under the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre . Over time he fused existentialism, Marxism, and ecological thought into a critique that re-imagined what economics could be about: not growth or pr