Prophet of Innovation / Thomas K. McCraw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCraw, Thomas K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schumpeter, Joseph A., 1883-1950.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Economists--United States--Biography.

Economists.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

xi, 719 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter, who made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. Drawing on all of Schumpeter's writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman-and admitted to failure only with the horses.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

PART I. L'Enfant Terrible, 1883-1926: Innovation and Economics

Prologue: Who He Was and What He Did

1. Leaving Home

2. Shaping His Character

3. Learning Economics

4. Moving Out

5. Career Takeoff

6. War and Politics

7. Gran Rifiuto

8. Annie

9. Heartbreak

PART II. The Adult, 1926-1939: Capitalism and Society

Prologue: What He Had Learned

10. New Intellectual Directions

11. Policy and Entrepreneurship

12. The Bonn-Harvard Shuttle

13. Harvard

14. Suffering and Solace

PART III. The Sage, 1939-1950: Innovation, Capitalism, and History

Prologue: How and Why He Embraced History

15. Business Cycles, Business History

16. Letters from Europe

17. To Leave Harvard?

18. Against the Grain

19. The Courage of Her Convictions

20. Alienation

21. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

22. War and Perplexity

23. Introspection

24. Honors and Crises

25. Toward the Mixed Economy

26. History of Economic Analysis

27. A Principle of Indeterminateness

28. L'Envoi

Epilogue: The Legacy

Notes

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-693) and index.

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ISBN:

0-674-73696-6

0-674-04077-5

OCLC:

1049633119