Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Ein Vergleich von Freiburger und Österreichischer Schule -- 3. Schumpeter - Unternehmertheorie und Konjunkturablauf sowie die Frage nach Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie -- 4. Milton Friedman - Freiheit und das Wachstum der...

This volume presents the interrelationships and possible connecting threads between two recent attempts within economic theory to step out of the mainstream of conventional neoclassical wisdom: evolutionary and neo-Schumpeterian theory. Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches to economics...

1. Introduction -- 2. Technical progress, capital accumulation and income distribution in classical economics : Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx -- 3. Joseph A. Schumpeter : an economist between Marx and Walras -- 4. Innovations and profits : Schumpeter and the classical heritage -- 5. On...

Austrian economics and entrepreneurial studies have both expanded greatly in the last twenty or thirty years. Unfortunately, they have developed more or less independently of each other. Austrian economics has enjoyed a revival since 1973 or 1974. In 1973, Israel Kirzner published his classic...

Schumpeter was an interdisciplinary political economist who made institutional transformation the centrepiece of his theory of supply and demand. This comprehensive monograph reconstructs and assesses Schumpeter's contribution to the restless economics of entrepreneurship, disequilibrium and...

Joseph Schumpeter is seen as the foremost theoretician of entrepreneurship. In addition, Schumpeter, whose "creative destruction" is as famous as Milton Friedman's "there is no free lunch," is increasingly recognized as a major economist, often given the same stature as John Maynard Keynes....

This volume brings together 11 articles on Gustav von Schmoller, Max Weber, and Joseph Schumpeter. It aims to identify the methodological essence of the German Historical School (GHS) that flourished between the 1840s and the 1930s. Schmoller was a leader of the GHS, and Weber and Schumpeter,...

Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung -- The Theory of Economic Development -- The Institutional Analysis of Entrepreneurship: Historist Aspects of Schumpeter’s Development Theory -- The Influence of Schumpeter’s German Writings on the Mainstream Economic Literature in English --...

The book illustrates the considerable advances in modern evolutionary economics and addresses core questions of economic behaviour, interaction of heterogeneous actors in uncertain environments and the possibility of aggregating observations on a macro-economic level. It presents the foundations...