Joseph Schumpeter

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Joseph Alois Schumpeter (February 8, 1883January 8, 1950) was an economist from Austria and an influential political scientist.

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  • To realize the relative validity of one's convictions, and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
  • Cassel is 10 per cent Walras and 90 per cent water.

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  • Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche. (To economics students, recorded by RL Heilbroner, The Embarrassment of Economics, 1996)[1]
  • Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. (Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, 1911)

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