Fritz Redlich and the entrepreneur as God and demon

Rafael Galvão De Almeida

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2023, vol. 43, issue 3, 670-685

Abstract: This work recovers the contribution of Fritz Redlich (1892-1978) to the economicthought. Redlich wrote important works in the disciplines of economic history, entrepreneurshipand business history. Amongst Redlich’s main ideas on the entrepreneur there ishis distinction among different types of entrepreneurs. Redlich was also one of the first authorsto analyze the structural problems of entrepreneurial action, proposing the idea of “demonicentrepreneur”, in which the accumulation of power caused by the entrepreneurial activitydestroys the innovative spirit of the system, turning the entrepreneur into an enemy ofsociety. JEL Classification: B25; L26; N01.

Keywords: Fritz Redlich; entrepreneurship; critical entrepreneurship studies; business history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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