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

—  Joseph Alois Schumpeter

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

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Austrian economist 1883–1950

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