Cita del libro de Jurg Niehans:

From then on, Schumpeter grew up in Vienna on the fringe of an aristocracy with which he could never compete in terms of high birth and wealth. This, togeter with his mother’s unlimited devotion seems to have had a decisive influence on his insatiable need for success. He later used to say that he had three goals in life, namely, to be austria’s greatest lover, Europe’s greatest horseman, and the world’s greatest economist but that he failed to reach the second.

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