03207nam 2200529 a 450 991082686480332120200520144314.01-62356-523-5(CKB)2670000000520154(EBL)1609917(MiAaPQ)EBC601576(Au-PeEL)EBL601576(CaPaEBR)ebr10427559(CaONFJC)MIL287644(OCoLC)893335093(EXLCZ)99267000000052015420081103d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJoseph A. Schumpeter /John Medearis1st ed.New York Continuumc20091 online resource (180 p.)Major conservative and libertarian thinkers ;v. 4Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-2633-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ThinkerThe 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; IndexJoseph 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 popularMajor conservative and libertarian thinkers ;v. 4.EconomistsUnited StatesEvolutionary economicsHistoryEconomistsEvolutionary economicsHistory.330.1Medearis John1617659MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826864803321Joseph A. Schumpeter3948941UNINA