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Is he? Never got around to reading his stuff but I doubt Hayek would say something like this:

Joseph Schumpeter - Wikipedia

Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. 1942 (Zitat:,,Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.")., sowie: ,,... capitalist order tends to destroy itself and ... socialism is ... a likely heir", ,,My final conclusion therefore does not differ ... from that of all Marxists." Zitiert bei Alfred Müller: Die Marxsche Konjunkturtheorie - Eine überakkumulationstheorietische Interpretation. PapyRossa Köln, 2009 (Dissertation 1983), S. 338.


Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.
by generic on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 09:59:07 AM EST
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How interesting:
Today, Schumpeter has a following outside of standard textbook economics, in areas such as in economic policy, management studies, industrial policy, and the study of innovation. Schumpeter was probably the first scholar to develop theories about entrepreneurship. For instance, the European Union's innovation program, and its main development plan, the Lisbon Strategy, are influenced by Schumpeter. The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society awards the Schumpeter Prize.

The Schumpeter School of Business and Economics opened in October 2008 at the University of Wuppertal. According to University President Professor Lambert T. Koch, "Schumpeter will not only be the name of the Faculty of Management and Economics, but this is also a research and teaching programme related to Joseph A. Schumpeter."

On 17 September 2009, The Economist inaugurated a column on business and management named "Schumpeter." The publication has a history of naming columns after significant figures or symbols in the covered field, including naming its British affairs column after former editor Walter Bagehot and its European affairs column after Charlemagne. The initial Schumpeter column praised him as a "champion of innovation and entrepreneurship" whose writing showed an understanding of the benefits and dangers of business that proved far ahead of its time.



tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 10:30:20 AM EST
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Where Schumpeter lives in Hayek-land is on the matter of recessions/depressions.

For Schumpeter a recession was necessary to "correct" "misallocation of resources" notably labour.

Krugman has gone over the evidence for this in his columns over the last year.

His conclusion is that Schumpeter's theory isn't borne out by the evidence and it's all a bit incoherent.

Players like The Economist love the "creative destruction" and "innovation" soundbites from Schumpeter - but his work doesn't seem to hang together that well in the end.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 10:53:52 AM EST
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Schumpeter's "creative destruction" is the destruction wrought by depressions, out of whose ashes entrepreneurship will usher in an innovated economic world.

The nihilism of magic ponies.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 11:08:21 AM EST
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perhaps Hollande has understood that French capitalism is desperately short of entrepreneurship. It seems that his emphasis on "innovation" points in that direction : French capitalists have never been interested in that, only in extracting rents.

Perhaps he will offer compulsory remedial classes in entrepreneurship and the sustainable creation of added value?

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II

by eurogreen on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 11:47:58 AM EST
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You're right about the rent extraction (Spain suffers from the same problem).

On Hollande, I think that's just wishful thinking. Hollande doesn't have his own economic ideas, but he relies on "experts". If Le Monde is right about who his "experts" are and their ideas, especially their advocacy of Schumpeter over Keynes, then we're fucked.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 12:03:19 PM EST
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