The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
Robinson and Edward Chamberlin argued that imperfect competition or monopoly was the norm and that in reality, Marshall’s perfect competition was a rarity. Even Joseph Schumpeter would write that for most markets, “there seems to be no reason to expect to yield the results of perfect competition,” and that “in the
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Privacy,” Harvard Law Review 4, no. 5 (1890). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 15 13. The Persistent Dream of the Self-Correcting Economy Thomas K. McCraw, “Joseph Schumpeter on Competition,” Competition Policy International 8, no. 1 (2012). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1 John Kenneth Galbraith, “The Essential Galbraith,” Library of Congress, accessed October
The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
by James Rickards · 15 Nov 2016 · 354pp · 105,322 words
part of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied law and economics at the University of Vienna. There he was a classmate of Joseph Schumpeter’s and took his Ph.D. with Carl Menger, the father of Austrian economics. During the First World War Somary served as a central banker
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, Russia, and Germany—are the same. Where is our new Somary? Who is the new raven? Somary also used the historical-cultural method favored by Joseph Schumpeter. In 1913, Somary was asked by the seven great powers of the day to reorganize the Chinese monetary system. He declined the role because he
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Democracy (1942) Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime. Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Secret Police (NKVD) under Stalin Schumpeter Reconsidered Joseph Schumpeter’s name conjures the phrase “creative destruction,” his best-known intellectual contribution, one of the most powerful economic insights of the twentieth century, with important
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Pérez · 1 Jan 2002
from their first beginnings to the time when they predominate in the structure and behavior of the economy. In his major work, Business Cycles (1939), Joseph Schumpeter, whilst interpreting the major waves of economic growth and technological transformation as ‘successive industrial revolutions’, insisted that these clusters of radical innovations also depended on
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
-structural methodology of earlier German economists for neglecting the subjective states of economic actors. Austrian economists such as Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig von Mises, and Joseph Schumpeter began to publish in the journal that Weber and Sombart helped to edit, the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, and Weber spent some time teaching
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the fascination of gambling” which drives the entrepreneur, he wrote in 1914. Rather, “the impulse which drives him forward is the joyful power to create.” Joseph Schumpeter, a younger Austrian economist who studied both with Wieser and with the VfS in Berlin, was especially insistent that the entrepreneur embodied the nonrational psychology
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as “we” rather than “them” or “it.” This sense of collective purpose flowed from the transformative mission set for the firm by the entrepreneur; as Joseph Schumpeter put it, the entrepreneur per se was distinguished from other kinds of business leaders by his determination to carry out some “new combination” of economic
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he made a convert of L.J. Henderson.”44 It was in this reading group, typically called the “Pareto circle,” that Henderson and Mayo met Joseph Schumpeter, who moved to the United States to take up a professorship in the Harvard Economics Department in 1932. Like many people, Schumpeter found Henderson’s
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industries too young yet to be subject to the steady grind of technological improvement. In the Depression era, under the influence of Frank Knight and Joseph Schumpeter, many American economists and other intellectuals learned to describe this process of industrial creativity as “entrepreneurial.” The economic theory of entrepreneurship imported from the German
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by training, he had made his name in the United States with his wartime writings on totalitarianism and the values of Western industrial society. But Joseph Schumpeter had been a friend of his father in Vienna, and as he began to read widely in the academic literature on management in the mid
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firms to stake out a “niche” for themselves in the marketplace, where at least for the time being they were insulated from competition. As in Joseph Schumpeter’s account of entrepreneurial “creative destruction,” the principal reward of innovation was a temporary monopoly position—a prospect all the more enticing in an economy
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Cheetos—just to name 2023 releases.7 Journalists speculate, based on survey data, that Generation Z “may be the most entrepreneurial of all generations.”8 Joseph Schumpeter predicted in the 1940s that the greatest threat to the culture of entrepreneurialism was routinization: the absorption of entrepreneurship by the large corporation as a
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solidarity, the invidious distinction between the value creation of white strivers and the idleness of the racialized poor. “My attitude toward Hitlerism is so astonishing,” Joseph Schumpeter confessed in his diary in 1939. Having once “attacked everything that Hitler stands for,” he wrote, “now I’m all but partisan and I am
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, trans. Mortimer Epstein (London: T. F. Unwin, 1915), 203; Friedrich von Wieser, Social Economics, trans. A. Ford Hinrichs (New York: Adelphi, 1927 [orig. 1914]), 324; Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle, trans. Redvers Opie (New York: Transaction Publishers, 2012 [trans
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, February 27, 1938, TT10. 42Dale Carnegie, “Dale Carnegie Says: ‘What a Pleasure Work Is!’” Washington Post, February 6, 1938, TT8. 43As expressed most forcefully by Joseph Schumpeter in his treatment of rationalism and intellectualism in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. 44Carnegie’s whole success philosophy draws an equivalence between reward and desert; Watts
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. 8Schrader, Taxi Driver, 32. 9This and all subsequent quotations from Scorsese, Taxi Driver. 10Quoted in Robert Loring Allen, Opening Doors: The Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter, vol. 2, America (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 1991), 66. 11Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Princeton, NJ: Zone Books, 2017). 12Priya
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, 176, 183, 206, 209, 219, 239, 259–60; informal, 217, 239; and innovation, 58, 120, 151; and John Birch, 220; and Joseph Campbell, 158; and Joseph Schumpeter, 52, 58, 62, 234; language of, 6; and managers, 8, 55, 101, 124, 190; and Manifest Destiny, 112; and masculinity, 113; and McDonald’s, 165
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; and Horatio Alger, 24; and human capitalism, 155; inadequate, 6; informal, 216, 230, 237; and Jay Van Andel, 177; and job creation, 219–20; and Joseph Schumpeter, 65–66; language of, 6, 162; and leadership, 100; and lifestyle commodification, 15; and management, 130, 138, 189; minority, 130; and modernization, 119; New Age
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
by Giovanni Arrighi · 15 Mar 2010 · 7,371pp · 186,208 words
. But a dominant state may lead also in the sense that it draws other states onto its own path of development. Borrowing an expression from Joseph Schumpeter (1963: 89), this second kind of leadership can be designated as “leadership against one’s own will” because, over time, it enhances competition for power
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the additional commitment of resources to stateand war-making involved in the territorial and commercial expansion of empire. In this connection we should note that Joseph Schumpeter’s (1955: 64-5) thesis that precapitalist state formations have been characterized by strong “objectless” tendencies “toward forcible expansion, without definite, utilitarian limits — that is
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. This was certainly true in the short run, bearing in mind that, in these things, a century is even more of a “short run” than Joseph Schumpeter thought. But in the longer run, it was not the Venetians but the Genoese that went on to promote, monitor, and benefit from the first
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underlie the recurrence of systemic cycles of accumulation and the transition from one cycle to another. THE “ENDLESS” ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL 219 Reprise and Preview Joseph Schumpeter (1954: 163) once remarked that, in matters of capitalist development, a century is a “short run.” As it turns out, in matters of development of
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was only a question of time before the crisis would re-emerge in more troublesome forms. Epilogue: Can Capitalism Survive Success? Some fifty years ago Joseph Schumpeter advanced the double thesis that “the actual and prospective performance of the capitalist system is such as to negative the idea of its breaking down
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world’s cultures and civilizations. It was nonetheless also possible that the bifurcation would result in endless worldwide chaos. As I put it then, paraphrasing Joseph Schumpeter, before humanity chokes (or basks) in the dungeon (or paradise) of a Western-centered global empire or of an East Asiancentered world-market society, “it
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu · 2 Nov 2010 · 418pp · 128,965 words
the promise of the telephone represents a pattern that recurs with a frequency embarrassing to the human race. “All knowledge and habit once acquired,” wrote Joseph Schumpeter, the great innovation theorist, “becomes as firmly rooted in ourselves as a railway embankment in the earth.” Schumpeter believed that our minds were, essentially, too
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thinker of the twentieth century better understood that such winner-take-all contests were the very soul of the capitalist system than did the economist Joseph Schumpeter, the “prophet of innovation.” Schumpeter’s presence in the history of economics seems designed to displease everyone. His prose, his personality, and his ideas were
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more generally replace radio, and by implication, destroy the Radio Corporation of America. He was a man who proved it is possible to defy both Joseph Schumpeter’s doctrine of creative destruction and, as he turned RCA into a television company, the adage that you can’t teach old dogs new tricks
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Routledge, 2006) (1942). For more about his work see Robert Loring Allen, Opening Doors: The Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter, Volume One—Europe (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991); on his up-and-down life, see Richard Swedberg’s Schumpeter: A Biography (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
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University Press, 1991); Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2007). 17. Albert Bigelow Paine, In One Man’s Life: Being Chapters from the Personal & Business Career of
The Nature of Technology
by W. Brian Arthur · 6 Aug 2009 · 297pp · 77,362 words
evolution itself, is by no means new. It has been mooted about by various people for well over 100 years, among them the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter. In 1910 Schumpeter was twenty-seven, and he was concerned not directly with combination and technology but with combination in the economy. “To produce,” he
Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
by Charles de Ganahl Koch · 14 Sep 2015 · 261pp · 74,471 words
, long before the Internet threatened brick-and-mortar retailers with creative destruction. Successful businesspeople stand on ground that is “crumbling beneath their feet,”2 said Joseph Schumpeter, who taught at Harvard in the 1930s and ’40s and is one of the most important economists of the twentieth century. His observation about the
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. Chapter 3: QUEENS, FACTORY GIRLS, AND SCHUMPETER 1. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), p. 67. 2. Cited in “Joseph Schumpeter: In Praise of Entrepreneurs,” Books and Arts section, The Economist, April 28, 2007, p. 94. 3. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, p. 84. 4. Ibid
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words
of a serpent.6 Proudhon’s rhetoric was high-flown and repetitive, and his economic analysis was not profound. In his History of Economic Analysis, Joseph Schumpeter lamented Proudhon’s complete inability to analyse. Even so, Proudhon had some original proposals. He wanted to nationalize the Banque de France, expand the money
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importance. For Böhm-Bawerk, interest was ‘an organic necessity’.65 Irving Fisher called interest ‘too omnipresent a phenomenon to be eradicated’.66 In similar vein, Joseph Schumpeter stated that interest ‘permeates, as it were, the whole economic system’.67 The author of Das Kapital, an avowed enemy of interest, agreed with this
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private seminars of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Among the other seminar attendants were future luminaries of the Austrian school of economics, including Ludwig von Mises, Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich Hayek. An axiom of the Austrian school was that interest is necessary so that investment and consumption decisions are co-ordinated over time
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a fall in prices would hinder the curative process of recession and keep the economy in a state of imbalance. As another celebrated Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter, put it, deflation ‘restores the health of the monetary system’.75 Any attempt to avoid deflation, said Wilhelm Röpke, would result in ‘a prolongation and
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in tandem.fn1 ‘Economic maturity is a bogey, the offspring of a body of doctrine both unsubstantiated and insubstantial,’ snorted Terborgh.6 Three years earlier, Joseph Schumpeter had anticipated much of Terborgh’s critique. In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), Schumpeter denied contemporary claims that the world was running out of innovations
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living will come down … enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people. Andrew Mellon, 1932 In his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter describes capitalism as a ‘process of industrial mutation … that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new
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or even prolonged stationariness of its economic conditions.’37 A couple of years before the appearance of The Road to Serfdom, Hayek’s Austrian contemporary Joseph Schumpeter published an equally notable book. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) is best known for introducing the idea of creative destruction (as discussed in Chapter 10
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: A Critical History of Economical Theory, vol. I (South Holland, Ill., 1959), p. 27. 66. Fisher, Theory of Interest, in Works, IX, p. 3. 67. Joseph Schumpeter, Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), p. 198. 68. Cited by Jacques
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. 108. 3. Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 to 1729, ed. William Lee (London, 1869), p. 189. 4. Joseph Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (New York, 1954), p. 295 5. Ibid., p. 322. 6. John Law, Oeuvres Completes, vol. I, ed. Paul Harsin (Paris, 1934
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. 73. Alfred Marshall, Official Papers (Cambridge, 1926), p. 19. 74. F. A. Hayek, Prices and Production and Other Works (Auburn, Ala., 2008), p. 5. 75. Joseph Schumpeter, Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), p. 110. 76. Röpke, Crises and
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American Economic Association, 9 (1), January 1894: 56–7. 3. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Ten Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes (Oxford, 1969), p. 162. 4. Joseph Schumpeter, Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), p. 210. 5. James Grant, ‘Shot
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Critical History of Economical Theory, vol. I (South Holland, Ill., 1959), p. 183. 3. Cassel, Nature and Necessity of Interest, p. 39. 4. Cited by Joseph Schumpeter, Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), pp. 201–3; Irving Fisher, Elementary
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Quantitative Easing (London, 2015), p. 133. 2. Arthur E. Monroe, Early Economic Thought: Selected Writings from Aristotle to Hume (Mineola, NY, 2006), p. 301. 3. Joseph Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (New York, 1954), pp. 300–302. 4. Monroe, Early Economic Thought, p. 304. 5. Ibid., p. 306. 6. Yueran Ma and
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
by Janek Wasserman · 23 Sep 2019 · 470pp · 130,269 words
and socialism and leading exponents of liberal ideology. In the interwar era, a new generation emerged to advance earlier intellectual and ideological efforts. First Mises, Joseph Schumpeter, and Hans Mayer, then Friedrich Hayek, Gottfried Haberler, and Oskar Morgenstern made their reputations by the end of the 1920s. They developed innovative understandings of
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most prominent example of these confrontations, and it created a counterpole to the hegemonic German approach in Vienna. The Methodenstreit: “A History of Wasted Energies” Joseph Schumpeter, a later member of the Austrian School, rendered a negative judgment of the “debate over methods” in his canonical history of economic thought. He explained
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English, making it one of the few German works afforded such a treatment. It went through four editions and inspired several generations of scholars, including Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich Hayek. It also provoked ardent detractors. Henry Carey Baird, son of the American economist Henry Carey, called the book “the
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and its key members Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, and Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Bukharin also recognized a rising group, including Ludwig von Mises and Joseph Schumpeter, whom he had met and debated in Böhm’s seminar. The Böhm seminar became a significant site of intellectual disputation in a city famous for
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Mises—illustrates these dynamics. Each man wrestled with conformity and creativity, viewing his relationship to the Austrian School as a source of inspiration and opposition. Joseph Schumpeter’s Early Successes Johanna Schumpeter always envisioned grand things for her son, Jozsi. A member of a prosperous German Moravian family, she moved to Graz
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circumstances, younger Austrian economists adapted by seeking new means of making their names and assuring their influence. In the final days of the war, Wieser, Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises, and others turned from bureaucratic posts to public outlets. They advocated political and economic solutions in newspaper articles, pamphlets, and short books
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cultural values and enjoyed unparalleled patronage from the RF. In proportion to the country’s size, Austria produced more fellows than any other European country. Joseph Schumpeter, now in Germany, noted the success of the Austrian economists while lamenting German deficiencies. Oskar Morgenstern also observed that Austrians outstripped Germans in international reputation
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his 1926 death signaled a major loss. The Austrian School had to reinvent itself in trying circumstances. Despite connections in the government and the academy, Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises, and Hans Mayer confronted major obstacles in their pursuit of influence. With political access and academic opportunities limited, these men refashioned themselves
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of the recurrence of periods of depression.” The final product, Prosperity and Depression, was immediately hailed as a seminal contribution. No less an authority than Joseph Schumpeter regarded Haberler’s work as a “masterly presentation of the modern material.” The London Times also acknowledged the work’s significance: “in a mere two
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was losing its spirit, its Geist. In 1934, Haberler took a position with the League of Nations Economic Section in Geneva. With the support of Joseph Schumpeter, Haberler secured a professorship at Harvard in 1936. This act of generosity was characteristic of Schumpeter. From Cambridge, he helped German intellectuals escape National Socialism
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that Mises had left to offer.20 If Mises and Hayek found modern economics constraining for their broader social and political projects, Oskar Morgenstern and Joseph Schumpeter grew exasperated by the discipline’s inability to incorporate new trends in mathematics and the social sciences. They, too, found their work underappreciated. Between the
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to penetrate the more fundamental issues.” Mises and Hayek rejected the work outright, the latter finding it incoherent at best and rude at worst.21 Joseph Schumpeter also fought unsuccessfully against prevailing trends in economics in the name of a more precise science. His 1939 attempt, Business Cycles, met with shrugs. He
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employment. Despite ample savings and an affordable rent-controlled apartment, his first years in Manhattan were trying. Unlike his younger Austrian colleagues or his contemporary Joseph Schumpeter, Mises did not receive a permanent academic appointment, nor did he garner academic attention for his polemical writing. Eventually he received a series of one
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neoliberalism, which featured William Rappard, Wilhelm Röpke, and Mises. By the time Haberler applied for jobs in the United States, no less an authority than Joseph Schumpeter called him “the best horse in the Viennese stables.” The elder Austrian attracted Haberler to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for the remainder of his
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proceeded to excommunicate Austrians who did not fit his understanding of the school. Viennese who did not conform—Rudolf Auspitz, Richard Lieben, and, most crucially, Joseph Schumpeter—were treated as apostates. Gone, too, was the figure who informed much of Kauder’s early knowledge of the Austrian movement: Hans Mayer. The Austrian
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’s work, which drew a straight line from Menger to Böhm to Mises, Machlup excluded seminal figures like Rudolf Auspitz, Richard Lieben, Emil Sax, and Joseph Schumpeter. He also included American Misesians. Machlup’s friend Herbert Furth rejected this conceptualization: “You know that I consider Hayek the ‘Dean’ of the Austrian School
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economist, extolled Haberler’s contributions to the Austrian tradition and the economics profession: “Of the three great Austrian economists who elevated world and American economics—Joseph Schumpeter, Friedrich Hayek and Gottfried Haberler—it was Haberler who was the ‘economist’s economist,’ a creative and eclectic advocate of free trade.” Samuelson’s verdict
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, and Hayek, that phase seemed at an end. He decried the disregard of values, or preanalytic “vision,” in shaping the social analyses of economists. Invoking Joseph Schumpeter, he argued for a broader philosophical perspective that might help social scientists to structure our social reality and imbue it with meaning. Unwittingly Heilbroner evoked
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, Friedrich von Wieser, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, and especially Carl Menger saw a spike in their popularity in the early 1990s. Last but not least, Joseph Schumpeter became far and away the most popular Austrian. He reached an all-time high in 1993. JSTOR results on scholarly publications suggest similar trends, though
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common cause with the left in toto. The quest for a progressive Austrianism remains unfulfilled.37 Marginal Revolutionaries In the monumental History of Economic Analysis, Joseph Schumpeter offered a sociological description of intellectual schools that encapsulates the subject of this book: We must never forget that genuine schools are sociological realities—living
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