12.15.09
Faust and economics
RG mail
by Hans Christoph Binswanger
Essays on Science and Society
Science (July 31 1998)
In Part II of his greatest play, Faust (1832) {*}, Goethe confronts the
promises and pitfalls of the Industrial Revolution and the economic growth
that it generated. As finance minister at the Court of Weimar he was well
placed to comment on these developments, and his insights remain
astonishingly relevant today.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5377/640