Joseph Schumpeter was an Austrian-born economist who taught at Harvard from 1932 until his death, and who argued that capitalism advances not through gentle equilibrium adjustment but through waves of entrepreneurial innovation that continually destroy the firms, products and industries that preceded them. His 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy named this process creative destruction and called it the essential fact about capitalism, a phrase that became the standard economic account of why protecting incumbent firms from competition can slow the very innovation it is meant to encourage.
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Schumpeter studied entrepreneurship and innovation-driven change under the same evolutionary economics term, though in a distinct, non-Darwinian sense from Veblen's original framing.
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Joseph Schumpeter (Wikipedia)
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February 8, 1883
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January 8, 1950)
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According to Christopher Freeman (2009), "the central point of his whole life work [is]: that capitalism can only be understood as an evolutionary process of continuous innovation and 'creative destruction'".
- Concepts Originated: Creative Destruction, Creative destruction, Origin section
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Schumpeter was one of the most influential economists of the early 20th century, and popularized creative destruction, a term coined by Werner Sombart.
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Associated With School: Evolutionary Economics, Evolutionary economics, Emergence as a separate field of study sectionQuote, Associated With School: Evolutionary Economics, Evolutionary economics, Emergence as a separate field of study section
Further researchers, such as Joseph Schumpeter, studied entrepreneurship and innovation using this term, but not in the Darwinian sense.
Paul Samuelson (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced: Paul Samuelson, Paul Samuelson, infobox Doctoral advisor field and Graduate studies sectionQuote, Influenced: Paul Samuelson, Paul Samuelson, infobox Doctoral advisor field and Graduate studies section
As a graduate student at Harvard, Samuelson studied economics under Joseph Schumpeter, Wassily Leontief, Gottfried Haberler, and the "American Keynes" Alvin Hansen.
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