Blokland, Hans. Van Weesep, Nancy Smyth (trans.). Modernization and Its Political Consequences Weber, Mannheim, and Schumpeter. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2006.

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Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) is one of the greatest social scientists of the twentieth century. Only Max Weber and his renowned rival John Maynard Keynes might compete with him. At least, this is opinion of the Harvard economist Gottfried Haberler (1994: xiv). Many others are no less enthusiastic in their praise. According to Robert Heilbroner, Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), the book around which the following discussion revolves, is one of the most provocative books ever written on the future of capitalism (1980: 312), and Richard Swedberg considers it to be one of the greatest classics in the literature…

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