Joseph Schumpeter

Articles

07/21/2009 Mises Daily Joseph Schumpeter

Menger was one of those thinkers who can claim a single decisive achievement that made scientific history. His name will be forever linked with a new explanatory principle which has revolutionized the whole field of economic theory.

Publications

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

06/01/1942 Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is packed with scintillating insight on all the topics that really matter: capitalism and its future, the absurdities of socialism, the dangers of democratic rule, the future of freedom, and the social dynamics

Imperialism and Social Classes

06/15/1919 Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining many

Economic Doctrine and Method: An Historical Sketch

06/15/1954 Joseph Schumpeter

The science of economics, as it took shape towards the end of the eighteenth century, had grown from two roots which must be clearly differentiated from one another. The great writings of the eighteenth century of which Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

Media

Methodological Individualism

10/03/2009 Joseph Schumpeter

Includes a summary by Frank van Dun. Preface by F.A. Hayek. Read by Josiah Schmidt.

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