Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine, Jun 2025
Friedrich Klänwechter initiated the teaching of economic disciplines at the newly established university in Chernivtsi on a combination of the traditions of the Austrian and German schools and prepared fertile ground for the beginning of Schumpeter’s work. Joseph Alois Schumpeter, being one of the most prominent economists, is one of those vivid examples of the formation of the methodology of economic science, which determine the unique originality and attractiveness of the history of economic thought as the theoretical and methodological basis of other economic sciences. In this case, we are talking about one of the key problems of applying the principle of historicism in scientific research – the dialectics of the mutual influence and interdependence of the roles of the individual and the environment in which he lives in the process of civilizational development of both this individual and his environment as a whole. The subject of this study is the relationship between the role of creativity and the personal characteristics of a scientist and the conditions and features of his environment. The purpose of the study is to clarify the patterns of the relationship between the creative achievements of a talented individualand the environment of its functioning using the example of the creative biography of the world-famous scientist Joseph Alois Schumpeter. Methods of the research. The research is based on a combination of general scientific methods and special methods of economic science, where analysis plays a key role. Taking into account the dynamics of the development of modern science, the research also applies philosophical and scientific approaches and synergistic principles, such as interdisciplinarity, pluralism, self-organization and multiculturalism, to study the mutual influence of the scientist’s functioning environment and the methodology substantiated by him. Concllusions. The paper analyzes the structure and methodological features of the creative achievements of Kleinwechter and Schumpeter. Тhe relationship between the scientist and his environment are analyzed both at the level of personalcommunication and at the level of commonality of methodology with other leading scientists of the time. Separately, the methodology for studying the behavior and socio-economic role of the entrepreneur as a «creative destroyer» is considered. In this context, the biography of Schumpeter himself, his successes and failures in the field of scientific and applied activity are also analyzed. Accordingly, a more thorough analysis of the content of the first editions of the scientist’s scientific publications, in particular, his reviews of the works of other leading scientists of that time, as well as documents reflecting various aspects of the organization of the teaching work of the outstanding scientist Joseph Alois Schumpeter, is justified as a subject of further research in this direction. The determining direction of such research is considered to be the elucidation of the regularities of the dialectical confrontation of the old with the new in both the theoretical and practical spheres, which makes new combinations more viable, more oriented towards a better satisfaction of our needs
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Богдан Сторощук, Микола Цепенда. The Birth of Economic Science in Bukovyna: Dialectics of the Interaction of the Individual and the Environment in the Decision-Making Process, Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine, 2025, pp. 51-60,