ABSTRACT
Joseph Schumpeter's naivete and desire for peace at any cost often led him to appeal for concessions to Germany. Somewhat awed by the might of the German war machine, he felt the odds of winning were on its side. When the department asked him to teach a course called The History of Economic Literature since 1776, Schumpeter's interest in the history of economic analysis had been recharged. Schumpeter made no secret of his pre-war views, nor did he conceal his opposition to his country's economic and diplomatic pressure on Japan. Many of his listeners, as well as his colleagues, naturally interpreted Schumpeter's remarks on the war as pro-German and pro-Japanese. Even though Schumpeter was a busy and productive member of Harvard's Economics Department and his loss to Yale would have damaged the department, he was not always personally popular with most of the faculty.
