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John Stuart Mill Interpretation Since Schumpeter

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Classical Political Economy

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The single most important factor shaping Mill research in the past three decades has been Schumpeter’s basically negative assessment in his 1954 classic, History of Economic Analysis. We shall take account of this in a preliminary overview, though it will also be a constant point of reference for us.

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de Marchi, N. (1988). John Stuart Mill Interpretation Since Schumpeter. In: Thweatt, W.O. (eds) Classical Political Economy. Recent Economic Thought, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7782-3_5

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