Joseph Alois Schumpeter Quotes

Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an Austrian-born American economist and political scientist. He briefly served as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. In 1932 he became a professor at Harvard University where he remained until the end of his career. One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, Schumpeter popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics.

✵ 8. February 1883 – 8. January 1950   •   Other names Schumpeter

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Famous Joseph Alois Schumpeter Quotes

“The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie”

Source: History of Economic Analysis, p. 43

Joseph Alois Schumpeter Quotes

“Chentlemen, you are vorried about the depression[sic]. You should not be. For capitalism, a depression is a good, cold douche.”

To economics students, recorded by R. L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers, 1953

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