Abstract
Schumpeter invented the phrase ‘creative destruction’ in his famous book on the development of capitalism into socialism (Schumpeter 1942). In his view the process of creative destruction is the essential fact about capitalism and refers to the incessant mutation of the economic structure from within, destroying the old and creating a new.
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Heertje, A. (2018). Creative Destruction (Schumpeterian Conception). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_3074
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