Prophet of innovation
Subtitle: Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction
By: Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 719
ISBN-13: 9780674025233
Subjects: Economische filosofie; Economists; Capitalismo; Capitalism; Biografia,; Technische vernieuwing; Economista,; Biography
Other titles: Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-693) and index.
Table of contents: title: L'Enfant terrible, 1883-1926: Innovation and economics; title: Prologue: Who he was and what he did; title: Leaving home; title: Shaping his character; title: Learning economics; title: Moving out; title: Career takeoff; title: War and politics; title: Gran Rifiuto; title: Annie; title: Heartbreak; title: The adult, 1926-1939: Capitalism and society; title: Prologue: What he had learned; title: New intellectual directions; title: Policy and entrepreneurship; title: The Bonn-Harvard shuttle; title: Harvard; title: Suffering and solace; title: The Sage, 1939-1950: Innovation, capitalism, and history; title: Prologue: How and why he embraced history; title: Business cycles, business history; title: Letters from Europe; title: To leave Harvard?; title: Against the grain; title: The courage of her convictions; title: Alienation; title: Capitalism, socialism and democracy; title: War and perplexity; title: Introspection; title: Honors and crises; title: Toward the mixed economy; title: History of economic analysis; title: A principle of indeterminateness; title: L'Envoi; title: Epilogue: The legacy.