schumpeter socialism capitalism democracy

But in essence they are-though not independent-almost self-contained pieces of analysis. Links and bridges between them have been provided of course and something like systematic unity of presentation has, I hope, been achieved. In order to avoid creating the impression that I aimed at writing a well-balanced treatise I have thought it best to group my material around five central themes. Moreover, this material also reflected the analytic efforts of an individual who, while always honestly trying to probe below the surface, never made the problems of socialism the principal subject of his professional research for any length of time and therefore has much more to say on some topics than on others. The problem of democracy forced its way into the place it now occupies in this volume because it proved impossible to state my views on the relation between the socialist order of society and the democratic method of government without a rather extensive analysis of the latter. The book includes two of the most famous works of the outstanding economist of the first half of the 20th century, Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), The Theory of Economic Development and Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, and translations of two of his articles, previously inaccessible to the domestic reader. Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is perhaps the most important and influential book on the subject ever written This volume is the result of an effort to weld into a readable form the bulk of almost forty years' thought, observation and research on the subject of socialism.

Schumpeter socialism capitalism democracy