Joseph Schumpeter

Tags: Economist.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (German: [ˈʃʊmpeːtɐ]; 8 February 1883 – 8 January 1950) was an Austrian American economist and political scientist. He briefly served as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. One of the most influential economists of the 20th century Schumpeter popularized the term creative destruction in economics.

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alma mater

University of Vienna

birth date

1883-02-08

birth place

Austria-Hungary, Czech Republic, Moravia, Třešť

death date

1950-01-08

death place

Salisbury Connecticut, United States

field

Economics

individualised GND number

118611682

influenced

James Tobin, Milton Friedman, Robert Heilbroner, David Rockefeller, Immanuel Wallerstein, Harry Gordon Johnson, Robert A. Dahl, Samuel P. Huntington, Peter Drucker, John Burr Williams, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Abram Bergson, Israel Kirzner, John Hicks, Paul Samuelson, Thomas Sowell, Erik S. Reinert, Carlota Perez, Anthony Downs, Christopher Freeman, Igor Egorov

influenced by

Carl Menger, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Werner Sombart, Nikolai Kondratiev, Émile Durkheim, Léon Walras, Vilfredo Pareto, Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustav von Schmoller, Herbert Spencer, Philip Wicksteed, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Clément Juglar, Knut Wicksell

institution

Harvard University, University of Bonn, University of Graz, Chernivtsi University