Joseph A. Schumpeter [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787731803321
• Autore: Medearis John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
• ISBN: 1-62356-523-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Collana: Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers
• Disciplina: 330.1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover-Page; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Author's Preface; 1 Life; The Shaping of a Young Austro-Hungarian Conservative, 1883-1913; War, Fragmentation, and "Tory Democracy," 1914-18; Conservatism after the Old Regime: Ventures Political, Commercial, and Scholarly, 1919-32; Conservatism after the Old Regime: New Continent, New Contentions, 1932-50; 2 Critical Exposition; Equilibrium Economics; Innovation and Creative Destruction; The Capitalist Order: The Tax State, Imperialism, and Social Classes; Schumpeter as a Conservative Thinker; The Capitalist Order's "Crumbling Walls"Democracy; 3 Influence; Schumpeter, Hayek, and Polanyi on the Prospects of Capitalism and Socialism; How Historical Lags Shaped Schumpeter's Influence; Elite Democracy; Innovative Capitalism; Tax States; Atavistic Empires; Functional Classes; Economic Sociology; 4 Relevance; Democratic Theory Appropriations; Conservative Appropriations; Notes; 1 Life; 2 Critical Exposition; 3 Influence; 4 Relevance; Bibliography; Works by Schumpeter; Works by Other Authors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Joseph Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was one of the foremost economic thinkers of the twentieth century. Today Schumpeter is most well-known for his idea of 'creative destruction'. This is the notion that a market economy is simultaneously creative and destructive and therein lies the process of renewal that is central to the endurance and also the unpopularity of capitalism. Schumpeter's work also contains one of the most important conservative critiques of mass democracy. Schumpeter argued that mass democracy had totalitarian tendencies and was likely ; to degenerate into the tyranny of the popular