Joseph A. Schumpeter
edited by Fritz Karl Mann
translated by Ruben Alvarado
by permission of Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen
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Together with John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, Joseph Schumpeter is regarded as one of the three greatest economists of the 20th century. And yet, his actual economic writing has remained something of an enigma.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, his best-known work, was, in his own view, an unscientific throw-off. His major economic works – The Theory of Economic Development and Business Cycles – have been misunderstood and underappreciated. What has not been realized is that key elements of the Schumpeterian system have hitherto gone missing. Clues to that system were contained in his magisterial History of Economic Analysis, but the full-orbed outworking was only contained in his unpublished German manuscript on money and banking.
Now published for the first time in English translation, the Treatise on Money provides the key to understanding Schumpeter’s system. It shows that Schumpeter’s famous concept of “creative destruction” entails a more complex phenomenon than is popularly understood. In particular, it provides an understanding of the workings of money, banking, and the money and capital markets, that is supremely relevant in the light of current monetary and fiscal policy crises. All in all, it is an indispensable contribution to revealing the true Schumpeter to the English-speaking world.
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BOOK INFORMATION:
ISBN: 978-90-76660-36-3 Editor: Fritz Karl Mann Translator: Ruben Alvarado Page count: xli, 336 Price (list): $23.99, £17.99 Publication date: June 30th, 2014