Prophet of Innovation
Subtitle: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: April 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780674025233
Subjects: Biography: general; Business & Management; Economic theory & philosophy; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Business; Economic History; Biography & Autobiography / Business; Biography; Capitalism; Economists; United States
First sentence: The bibliography, by necessity, has two protagonists: Joseph Alois Shumpeter (1883--1950) and the phenomenon of capitalist innovation. (Preface, page ix)
Schumpeter first used the phrase creative destruction in 1942, to describe how
innovative capitalists products and methods continually displace old ones. (Prologue, page 3)
Table of contents: title: Part I L'Enfant Terrible, 1883--1926: Innovations and Econimics; title: Prologue: Who He Was and What He Did, 3; title: Leaving home, 10; title: Shaping His Character, 23; title: Learning Economics, 38; title: Moving Out, 57; title: Career Takeoff, 67; title: War and Politics, 84; title: Gran Rifiuto, 104; title: Annie, 113; title: Heartbreak; title: Part II The Adult, 1926--1939: Capitalism and Society; title: Prologue: What He Had Learned, 145; title: New Intellectual Directions, 151; title: Policy and Entrepreneurship, 167; title: The Bonn-Harvard Shuttle, 184; title: Harvard, 205; title: Sufering and Sollace, 222; title: Part III The Sage, 1939--1950: Innovation, Capitalism, and History; title: Prolog: How and Why He Embraced History; title: Business Cycles, Business History, 251; title: Letters from Europe, 279; title: To Leave Harvard?, 302; title: Against the Grain, 313; title: The Courage of Her Convictions, 326; title: Alienation, 337; title: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 347; title: War and Perplexity, 375; title: Introspection, 399; title: Honors and Crises, 409; title: Toward the Mixed Economy, 422; title: History of Economic Analysis, 442; title: A Principle of Indeterminateness, 469; title: L'Envoi, 485; title: Epilogue: The Legacy, 495; title: Notes, 507; title: Acknowledgements, 695; title: Illustration Credits, 699; title: Index, 703