TODAY'S HOTTEST ECONOMIST DIED 50 YEARS AGO

摘要

The world of economics has a new superstar: Joseph A. Schumpeter. Never mind that the Austrian-born Schumpeter has been dead for a half-century, that he was overshadowed while alive by John Maynard Keynes, and that he was famously wrong in predicting that capitalism would become a victim of its own success. Today he's more influential than ever—because the high- growth, high-risk New Economy is exactly the kind of economy he wanted.