“Wie es dazu kam” Novel by Christoph Niehus
After books and essays on the economic discourse “Wie es dazu kam” is Christoph Niehus’ first novel. The story is set in the transitional period from the Weimar Republic to the so-called ‘Third Reich’ and circles the question of why enormous economic opportunities combined with the tendency of opportunism prevent people from being good.
The author tells the family drama in 19 podcast episodes as an audio book. You can listen to it almost anywhere podcasts are available, e.g. at Podigee, Deezer, Google, Spotify, Amazon or Apple (Narrated in German language).
Schumpeter hoped, as he said, to explore the “inner driving force of the economy”. And for him, this driving force was the entrepreneur. Josef Schumpeter asked himself: What is the contribution – what does the entrepreneur actually do? And he saw in him a dynamic figure who has the job of innovating and helping innovations to break through. Schumpeter thus attributes the entrepreneur a decisive influence on economic development.
What happens from an economic perspective when people with room for manoeuvre meet? How should we act in and for the organisations of the economy and what effects can be expected? What expands and what limits our individual choices? Which stories develop from this?