Prophet of innovation Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction
Thomas K. McCraw.Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction
Cambridge, Mass.
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2007
xi, 719 p. ill. 24 cm
Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois,1883-1950
Economists
Capitalism
HB
119
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S35M43
2007
McCraw, Thomas K
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]507[-693( and index.
L'Enfant terrible, 1883-1926: Innovation and economics -- Prologue: Who he was and what he did -- Leaving home -- Shaping his character -- Learning economics -- Moving out -- Career takeoff -- War and politics -- Gran Rifiuto -- Annie -- Heartbreak -- The adult, 1926-1939: Capitalism and society -- Prologue: What he had learned -- New intellectual directions -- Policy and entrepreneurship -- The Bonn-Harvard shuttle -- Harvard -- Suffering and solace -- The Sage, 1939-1950: Innovation, capitalism, and history -- Prologue: How and why he embraced history -- Business cycles, business history -- Letters from Europe -- To leave Harvard? -- Against the grain -- The courage of her convictions -- Alienation -- Capitalism, socialism and democracy -- War and perplexity -- Introspection -- Honors and crises -- Toward the mixed economy -- History of economic analysis -- A principle of indeterminateness -- L'Envoi -- Epilogue: The legacy