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The perennial gale of creative destruction
- Although Schumpeter devoted a mere six-page chapter to “The Process of Creative Destruction,” in which he described capitalism as “the perennial gale of creative destruction,” it has become the centerpiece for modern thinking on how economies evolve.
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May 7, 2007 · Economist Joseph Schumpeter was perhaps the most powerful thinker ever on innovation, entrepreneurship, and capitalism. He was also one of the most unusual personalities of the 20th century, as Harvard Business School professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw shows in a new biography.
- Early Life and Education
- Notable Accomplishments and Theories
- Example of Schumpetarian Theory
- Joseph Schumpeter vs. John Maynard Keynes
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Schumpeter was born in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) in 1883, to German parents. He studied economics from the progenitors of the Austrian school tradition, including Friedrich von Wieser and Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk. Schumpeter served as minister of finance in the Austrian government, the president of a private bank, and a university professor. Fr...
Schumpeter made many contributions to economic science and political theory, but he is best known for his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, which outlines the theory of dynamic economic growth known as creative destruction.He is also credited with the first German and English references to methodological individualism in economics.
The internet is one of the best examples of creative destruction, the term that Schumpeter coined to describe the dismantling of long-standing practices in order to make way for new technologies, new kinds of products, new methods of production, and new means of distribution. Existing companies must quickly adapt to a new environment (or fail). The...
Over his many years in public life, Schumpeter developed informal rivalries with the other great economic thinkers of the west, including John Maynard Keynes, Irving Fisher, Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich Hayek. His work initially was overshadowed by some of these contemporaries', especially Keynes. Although they were born just a few months apart,...
Joseph Schumpeter’s work initially received little acclaim, due in part to the great popularity of his contemporary, John Maynard Keynes. That changed over time and he is now viewed as one of the greatest economists of modern times. He introduced the concept of the entrepreneur and the influence of entrepreneurship on economic systems. His theory o...
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While Marx predicted that capitalism would be overthrown by a violent proletarian revolution, which occurred in the least capitalist countries, Schumpeter believed that capitalism would gradually weaken itself and eventually collapse.
Jan 3, 2022 · The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter believed that the triumph of socialism was inevitable, but he rejected the Marxist view of how capitalism works. His ideas are a stimulating challenge for those seeking an alternative to capitalism today.
Schumpeter's theory is that the success of capitalism will lead to a form of corporatism and a fostering of values hostile to capitalism, especially among intellectuals.
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter
- 1942
Schumpeter believed that capitalism would be destroyed by its successes, that it would spawn a large intellectual class that made its living by attacking the very bourgeois system of private property and freedom so necessary for the intellectual class’s existence.
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Oct 14, 2024 · In his widely read Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942), he argued that capitalism would eventually perish of its own success, giving way to some form of public control or socialism. His History of Economic Analysis (1954; reprinted 1966) is an exhaustive study of the development of analytic methods in economics .
