Prophet of Innovation
Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Published on 1. July 2009
731 pages
978-0-674-04077-9 (ISBN)
Description
Schumpeter 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.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04077-9 (9780674040779)
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Book
11/2009
The Belknap Press
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Person
Thomas K. McCraw is Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Content
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
