Occupation: Economist Birth: August 25, 1909 Death: March 26, 1964
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to ….
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I ho….
That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications..
For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to ….
Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be f….
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line..
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order….
" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a U….
Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wid….
The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilizat….
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities..
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the reg….
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United Stat….
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchan….
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay….
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction..
The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance o….
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which….
Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appea….
Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic p….