Prophet of Innovation / / Thomas K. McCraw.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: McCraw, Thomas K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter, who made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. Drawing on all of Schumpeter's writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman-and admitted to failure only with the horses.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. L'Enfant Terrible, 1883-1926: Innovation and Economics -- Prologue: Who He Was and What He Did -- 1. Leaving Home -- 2. Shaping His Character -- 3. Learning Economics -- 4. Moving Out -- 5. Career Takeoff -- 6. War and Politics -- 7. Gran Rifiuto -- 8. Annie -- 9. Heartbreak -- PART II. The Adult, 1926-1939: Capitalism and Society -- Prologue: What He Had Learned -- 10. New Intellectual Directions -- 11. Policy and Entrepreneurship -- 12. The Bonn-Harvard Shuttle -- 13. Harvard -- 14. Suffering and Solace -- PART III. The Sage, 1939-1950: Innovation, Capitalism, and History -- Prologue: How and Why He Embraced History -- 15. Business Cycles, Business History -- 16. Letters from Europe -- 17. To Leave Harvard? -- 18. Against the Grain -- 19. The Courage of Her Convictions -- 20. Alienation -- 21. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy -- 22. War and Perplexity -- 23. Introspection -- 24. Honors and Crises -- 25. Toward the Mixed Economy -- 26. History of Economic Analysis -- 27. A Principle of Indeterminateness -- 28. L'Envoi -- Epilogue: The Legacy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index