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  2. Joseph Schumpeter - Wikipedia

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    Schumpeter was educated at the Theresianum, and began his career studying law at the University of Vienna under Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, an economic theorist of the Austrian School. In 1906, he received his doctoral degree from the University of Vienna's faculty of law, with a specialisation in economics. [10]

  3. Opportunity cost - Wikipedia

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    Opportunity cost, as such, is an economic concept in economic theory which is used to maximise value through better decision-making. In accounting, collecting, processing, and reporting information on activities and events that occur within an organization is referred to as the accounting cycle.

  4. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy - Wikipedia

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    Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is a book on economics, sociology, and history by Joseph Schumpeter, arguably his most famous, controversial, and important work. It's also one of the most famous, controversial, and important books on social theory, social sciences, and economics —in which Schumpeter deals with capitalism, socialism, and creative destruction.

  5. Schools of economic thought - Wikipedia

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    Yet the Historical school forms the basis—both in theory and in practice—of the social market economy, for many decades the dominant economic paradigm in most countries of continental Europe. The Historical school is also a source of Joseph Schumpeter's dynamic, change-oriented, and innovation-based economics. Although his writings could be ...

  6. Creative destruction - Wikipedia

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    This is also the period during which moneyed interest enriches itself at the cost of industrial interest. Social geographer David Harvey sums up the differences between Marx's usage of these concepts and Schumpeter's: "Both Karl Marx and Joseph Schumpeter wrote at length on the 'creative-destructive' tendencies inherent in capitalism. While ...

  7. History of economic thought - Wikipedia

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    According to Joseph Schumpeter, Plato was the first known advocate of a credit theory of money that is, money as a unit of account for debt. Plato also argued that collective ownership was necessary to promote common pursuit of the common interest, and to avoid the social divisiveness that would occur "when some grieve exceedingly and others ...

  8. Kondratiev wave - Wikipedia

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    Kondratiev's ideas were taken up by Joseph Schumpeter in the 1930s. The theory hypothesized the existence of very long-run macroeconomic and price cycles, originally estimated to last 50–54 years. In recent decades there has been considerable progress in historical economics and the history of technology, and numerous investigations of the ...

  9. What Is Opportunity Cost? How To Use It To Boost Side Gig ...

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    The opportunity cost is the time lost with your family which you cannot get back. If you spend time and money going to a concert, you cannot spend that time at home catching up on chores, and you ...