an Austrian economist

Schumpeter was an Austrian economist who identified innovation and entrepreneurial activities as the critical dimension of economic change, rather than market forces and price competition.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Joseph A. Schumpeter is renowned as one of the most important economists of the 20th century.

Joseph Alois

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (8 February 1883 – 8 January 1950) was an Austrian-German-American researcher in economics and political science.

one of the most influential and renowned 20th-century economists

Schumpeter was one of the most influential and renowned 20th-century economists and promoted the phrase “creative destruction,” an economic concept.

an interdisciplinary political economist who made institutional transformation the centrepiece of Schumpeter's theory of supply and demand

Schumpeter was an interdisciplinary political economist who made institutional transformation the centrepiece of Schumpeter's theory of supply and demand.

an economist who pushed the notion of 'creative destruction' where new technologies render old ones obsolete

Schumpeter was an economist who pushed the notion of 'creative destruction' where new technologies render old ones obsolete, and therefore destroy the value of assets based upon those old technologies.

a neoclassical economist

Schumpeter was a neoclassical economist who attributed higher amounts of capital per worker to technological change, which resulted in more for the profit receivers.

a renowned Economist, Business Theorist and Political Scientist

Originally born in Moravia in the present-day Czech Republic, Schumpeter was a renowned Economist, Business Theorist and Political Scientist.

the Austrian economist who developed the concept of creative destruction

Schumpeter was the Austrian economist who developed the concept of creative destruction.

a brilliant economist

Schumpeter (1883-1950) was a brilliant economist and, apparently, quite a character.

an Austrian

Schumpeter is an Austrian (born in 1883) who emigrated to the USA just four months previous to Hitler achieving the Chancellorship (1932).

the great synthesizer and systematizer, the first one to take up all the threads of Smith's predecessors and weave the Austrians together into a coherent and systematic framework

Smith, it is conceded, created nothing, but Schumpeter was the great synthesizer and systematizer, the first one to take up all the threads of Smith's predecessors and weave the Austrians together into a coherent and systematic framework.

an interesting chap*, an economist who actually was interested in ecological and biological processes

Schumpeter was an interesting chap*, an economist who actually was interested in ecological and biological processes.

an Austrian-American political economist who worked as a Harvard University professor

Schumpeter (1883-1950) was an Austrian-American political economist who worked as a Harvard University professor.

Political economist Joseph Schumpeter

Political economist Joseph Schumpeter is the intellectual father of entrepreneurship and innovation.

a flamboyant adventurer born into a provincial Catholic family

Schumpeter was a flamboyant adventurer born into a provincial Catholic family.

one of an influential group of key economists who broke new ground in economic theory around the middle of last century

Schumpeter was one of an influential group of key economists who broke new ground in economic theory around the middle of last century.

the first economist to comprehensively analyze and clearly describe the transformational function of innovation in a market economy together with the key human factor, the entrepreneur

Schumpeter was the first economist to comprehensively analyze and clearly describe the transformational function of innovation in a market economy together with the key human factor, the entrepreneur.

a teacher of mathematical economics

World War I, a teacher of mathematical economics whose published works contain hardly a single equation, Schumpeter was a complex, protean figure whose most enduring quality was Ludwig von Mises's contrarian brilliance.

an isolated and highly original thinker

Schumpeter was an isolated and highly original thinker, as was Nietzsche.