Table of Contents	7
	Contributors	8
	Preface Nietzsche- Economy and Society: The Closed and the Open Questions	9
	NOTES	10
	REFERENCES	11
	1. Friedrich Nietzsche and Economics: Research Problems	12
	1. WHY IS NIETZSCHE INTERESTING FOR US?	12
	2. RESEARCH PROBLEMS	13
	3. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?	16
	NOTES	17
	REFERENCES	18
	2. The Influence of Nietzsche on the History of Economic Thought	20
	1. INTRODUCTION	20
	2. THE HISTORIES OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT	22
	3. THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE	26
	4. OTHER EVIDENCE	36
	5. DISCUSSION	39
	6. CONCLUSION	43
	NOTE	43
	REFERENCES	43
	3. Nietzsche and Economics	50
	1. QUOTED ECONOMISTS	51
	2. ECONOMIC STATEMENTS	54
	3. CONCLUSION	60
	NOTES	61
	REFERENCES	64
	4. Creative Destruction in Economics: Nietzsche, Sombart, Schumpeter	66
	1. CREATIVE DESTRUCTION IN VOGUE	66
	2. CREATIVE DESTRUCTION BEFORE NIETZSCHE	69
	3. NIETZSCHE AND CREATIVE DESTRUCTION	73
	4. NIETZSCHE IN ECONOMICS: FROM SOMBART TO SCHUMPETER	83
	5. NIETZSCHE AND ECONOMICS AT THE CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH	85
	NOTES	89
	REFERENCES	94
	5. The Word of Honour	98
	INTRODUCTION	98
	INSERTION I	105
	INSERTION II	109
	III. THE BASIC INSTITUTIONS OF A MARKET ECONOMY – RECONSIDERED: PRICE INDICES	116
	NOTES	119
	REFERENCES	119
	6. An " All too Human" Question: Nietzsche, Die Soziale Frage, and the German Historical School of Economics	122
	1. INTRODUCTION: NIETZSCHE AND THE LATE 19TH- CENTURY ECONOMIC AGENDA	122
	2. THE SOCIAL QUESTION AND THE GERMAN ECONOMIC PROGRAMME OF THE 1870’ S	125
	3. A HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN SOCIAL QUESTION	129
	4. NIETZSCHE’S GLANCE AT THE STATE	133
	5. CONCLUSIONS	139
	NOTES	142
	REFERENCES	145
	7. Nietzsche and Business Ethics	148
	1. DEFINITIONS	148
	2. THEORIES	150
	3. CONCLUSION	153
	NOTES	153
	REFERENCES	154
	8. On the Anticipation of Knightian Uncertainty in Nietzsche’s	156
	1. INTRODUCTION	156
	2. PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT	158
	3. NIETZSCHE	160
	4. PRAGMATIC PHILOSOPHY	167
	5. CONCLUSION	172
	NOTES	173
	REFERENCES	176
	9. On the Nietzsche-Reception in the GDR	184
	1. INTRODUCTION	184
	2. THE VIEW FROM " OUTSIDE”	186
	3. PHASES OF A HISTORY OF RECEPTION	187
	4. CONCLUSION	194
	NOTES	194
	REFERENCES	196
	10. Wolfgang Harich and Friedrich Nietzsche- A Chapter of the East German Nietzsche Debate	202
	1. INTRODUCTION	202
	2. SOME REMARKS ONWOLFGANG HARICH AND HIS BIOGRAPHY	203
	3. HARICH’S VIEW REGARDING NIETZSCHE	207
	4. GEORG LUKACS’ CONCEPT OF THE LATE BOURGEOIS PHILOSOPHY – THE INTELLECTUAL MAIN SOURCE OF HARICH’S NIETZSCHE INTERPRETATION	212
	5. CONCLUSION	214
	NOTES	215
	REFERENCES	216
	11. Justice and Economy from All Too Human to Thus Spake Zarathustra	220
	1.	220
	2.	221
	3.	223
	4.	225
	5.	226
	6.	228
	7.	229
	NOTES	229
	REFERENCES	235
	12. Democracy and Aristocracy in Nietzsche’s Late Writings	240
	1. NIETZSCHE’S BELIEF IN HIS DIVINITY	240
	2. DIONYSOS AS SYMBOL OF THE UNIVERSAL TRUTH OF LIFE	242
	3. THE DEATH OF GOD AS THE END OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY	243
	4. DIONYSOS AS A SYMBOL OF THE ETERNAL PROCESS OF COMING TO BE AND PASSING AWAY	244
	5. THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME AND THE SO CALLED SUPERMAN	245
	6. NIETZSCHE AS A CRITIC OF THE LIBERAL AND SOCIALDEMOCRATIC TENDENCIES OF HIS PRESENT	247
	7. DEMOCRACY AS A FORERUNNER OF A NEW ARISTOCRACY	251
	8. CONDITIONS AND MEANS FOR THE ORIGIN OF A NEW ARISTOCRACY	252
	9. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK	254
	NOTES	256
	REFERENCES	262