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14%OFFThomas K. McCraw - Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction - 9780674034815 - V9780674034815
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Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

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Description for Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction Paperback. Drawing on Joseph A Schumpeter's writings, including many intimate diaries and letters, this biography paints the portrait of this magnetic figure who aspired to become one of the world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman - and admitted to failure only with the horses. Num Pages: 736 pages, 68 halftones. BIC Classification: BGB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 968.
Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland-all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter. Creative destruction, he said, is the driving force of capitalism. Described by John Kenneth Galbraith as the most sophisticated conservative of the twentieth century, Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. His vision was stark: Nearly all businesses fail, victims of innovation ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674034815
SKU
V9780674034815
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About Thomas K. McCraw
Thomas K. McCraw was Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Reviews for Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
[Schumpeter's] private life was no less fascinating than his public message. In Prophet of Innovation, Thomas McCraw
emeritus professor of history at the Harvard Business School
artfully weaves the two together.
Dan Seligman Wall Street Journal 20070405 In this biography, Pulitzer Prize winner McCraw neatly divides his emphasis between Schumpeter's professional and personal life. He portrays his subject as a somewhat ... Read more

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