The nano-revolution of Schumpeter's Kondratieff cycle

In Business Cycles (1939) Schumpeter took up empirical data which had been produced by Kondratieff, and made the clustering of innovations into the actual cause of long economic cycles. The book was a failure, largely due to negative reviews which…

J. A. Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis (London: Allen & Unwin, 1954) & other works successfully integrated the concepts & methods of economics & sociology to build a general theory of economic dynamics & social change & to reconstruct the…

Schumpeter's innovator provided the economics profession with an attractive explanation of the nature and function of entrepreneurshi p. Most of the economists had always assumed that the idea of the "innovating entrepreneur" popped from…

This essay introduces the first translation of Schumpeters article Entrepreneur, originally published in 1928. We describe the background of Entrepreneur and use new archival sources to situate the article in time. Entrepreneur marks a transition of…

Several titles of publications by J. A. Schumpeter contain the word sociology , among others, the article to be discussed in the following that had been published posthumously in 1970 as the second chapter of the book Das Wesen des Geldes . The…

J. A. Schumpeter is one of the most important and most original representatives of the 20th century socio-economic theory, who made an essential contribution to the concept of long waves. He focused his theoretical system (represented by major works…

The notion of entrepreneurship in Schumpeter' s works has been interpreted as a dualistic concept, involving a shift of the conceptual focus from the heroic founders of new firms to the routinised employees in bureaucratic corporations. This…

Fiscal sociology deals with the ramifications of the fiscal activities of the state into areas which are not their primary target. These effects may occur in sectors not directly affected such as related markets, but they may also occur outside the…

A study of 36 nations indicated that measures of economic growth for the period 1980-1995 were not predicted by scores of national samples in the mid-1980s on a measure of competitiveness.

In recent years, numerous studies have been published highlighting the role of financial structures in the development process of contemporary economies. In these recent studies, there is always a reference to the pioneering work of Schumpeter; in…