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... and that fellow writing in the Economist is no Schumpeter.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Aug 28th, 2010 at 01:55:45 PM EST
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One suspects that the results of putting his ideas into practice would be, (have been?), uncreative destruction.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Aug 28th, 2010 at 09:45:47 PM EST
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Having read Schumpeter's Business Cycles, I can say that the destruction caused by the Economist "Schumpeter" concept of innovation including "financial innovation" does indeed extend to include pure and simple destruction, nothing creative about it.

Labeling the re-creation of Gilded Age Version 1 financial games as "innovation" is, indeed, part of the defense mechanism of an obsolete system against creative destruction, but defenses like those are like levies built of sand: they work until the flood comes.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Aug 29th, 2010 at 03:57:27 AM EST
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