"The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring
to the ""magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter"". A figure in a
rare class with John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, and Alfred
Marshall, the work of Joseph Schumpeter is equalled only in monumental
significance by his personal trials and tribulations. The work is
divided into two volumes - the first covering his career in Europe and
the second his life and achievements in America.Walt Rostow, in his
Foreword, sums up Robert Loring Allen's achievement in biography and
intellectual history thus: ""In dealing with Schumpeter's life, Allen
exhibits a rare consciousness of the extraordinary complexity and only
limited penetrability of the human personality Schumpeter's closely
interwoven personal and professional life unfolds, Allen develops
without dogmatism a pattern of linkages for the reader to contemplate.
In a splendid final passage, he provides a memorable summation.""What
makes this enormous effort so successful is the linkage of the
personal and the professional, the biographical with the intellectual.
Indeed, it is Schumpeter's single-minded determination to explain
within a single, formal theory, the dynamics of capitalism that
bridges the gap in space, time, and personality. To his books The
Theory of Economic Development, and Capitalism, Socialism and
Democracy, both published by Transaction, is now added the specific
contexts in which these and his other works were written.The author of
this biography, like the subject himself, is a masterful student of
the craft of economics, and its place within the larger social science
contexts that Schumpeter worked. In this work, we are introduced into
the main current of European and American social science alike. The
title of the book, Opening Doors, derives from Schumpeter's life long
aim to appeal to inquiring minds to move through such doors in an
effort to create the social science of the"
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ISBN
9781351501545
Publisert
2017
Utgave
1. utgave
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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