Joseph Alois Schumpeter

With its original contribution to the consideration of the most important social movements of our time, this book has become one of the most well-known works of social theory written this century

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter--one of the great economists of the first half of the 20th century--was working on his monumental History of Economic Analysis. A complete history of efforts to understand the subject of economics from ancient Greece to the present, this book is an important contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics. Although never fully completed, it has gained recognition as a modern classic due to its broad scope and original examination of significant historical events. Complete with a new introduction by Mark Perlman, who outlines the structure of the book and puts Schumpeters work into current perspective, History of Economic Analysis remains a reflection of Schumpeters diverse interests in history, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. Major topics include the techniques of economic analysis, contemporaneous developments in other sciences, and the sociology of economics; economic writings from Plato and Aristotle up through the time of Adam Smith, including the medieval scholastics and natural-law philosophers; the work of Malthus, Mill, Ricardo, Marx, and the important European economists; the history, sociology, psychology, and economics of the period 1879-1914; and modern economic developments. Schumpeter perceived economics as a human science, and this lucid and insightful volume reflects that perception, creating a work that is of major importance to the history of economics.

History of Economic Analysis

Schumpeter proclaims in this classical analysis of capitalist society first published in 1911 that economics is a natural self-regulating mechanism when undisturbed by "social and other meddlers." In his preface he argues that despite weaknesses, theories are based on logic and provide structure for understanding fact. Of those who argue against him, Schumpeter asks a fundamental question: "Is it really artificial to keep separate the phenomena incidental to running a firm and the phenomena incidental to creating a new one?" In his answers, Schumpeter offers guidance to Third World politicians no less than First World businessman. In his substantial new introduction John E. Elliott discusses the salient ideas of The Theory of Economic Development against the historical background of three great periods of economic thought in the last two decades.

An Inquiry Into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle

The Theory of Economic Development

creative destruction and the future of the global economy

Can capitalism survive?

الرأسمالية و الاشتراكية و الديمقراطية

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Capitalism, socialism, and democracy

Richard Swedberg

Thorbjørn Knudsen

Markus C. Becker

This book is the first to contain all of Schumpeter's important texts on the entrepreneur and entrepreneurship in English.

Classic Texts by Joseph A. Schumpeter

The Entrepreneur

Ce volume rassemble trois essais de Schumpeter, parus en allemand et relevant de l'analyse sociologique, écrits entre 1919 et 1927 : Contribution à une sociologie des impérialismes, Les Classes sociales en milieu ethnique homogène et La Crise de l'Etat fiscale. Ces textes, centrés sur les relations entre l'histoire sociale des classes dominantes, le système de production capitaliste et l'Etat centralisé doivent leur importance théorique à la position qu'ils occupent entre la sociologie historique et l'histoire de l'économie. Pourquoi lire Schumpeter aujourd'hui ? Parce que sa démarche intellectuelle garde pour nous toute son originalité. Sa sociologie historique, qui met à l'œuvre la méthode comparative, avec un sérieux dans la documentation devenu rare depuis Marx et Max Weber, prend pour objet des systèmes de relations sociales, tels l'impérialisme, la structure de classes ou la mobilité sociale. C'est sans doute dans le rapport à Marx que se trouvent rassemblés et concentrés les traits les plus spécifiques du caractère intellectuel de Schumpeter. Lui vouant dès ses premiers écrits une admiration mêlée d'agressivité, il a mené avec lui tout au long de sa vie un dialogue obstiné, réfutant une à une chacune de ses démonstrations, pour leur substituer les siennes propres.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

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