ABSTRACT
To Schumpeter, going to Czernowitz probably appeared almost like going into exile since the intellectual establishment, centered in Vienna, on occasion used Czernowitz as a place to shelve troublesome professors. Faced with accepting a temporary extraordinary, or associate, professorship at Czernowitz or no job at all, Schumpeter did not hesitate. Believing he deserved better, he took the job with some misgivings. At the University of Vienna, a noticeable sigh of relief went up from many professors when they learned that Schumpeter would be safely ensconced in a professorship at the university most distant from Vienna, more than 1,000 kilometers away. He would not trouble them for a while.
