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Joseph Schumpeter

1883 - 1950

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Joseph Alois Schumpeter (German: [ˈʃʊmpeːtɐ]; February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Schumpeter has received more than 2,215,126 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Joseph Schumpeter is the 10th most popular economist, the 23rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Economist.

Joseph Schumpeter is most famous for his theory of "creative destruction," which is a process of constant innovation that leads to the destruction of old industries and the creation of new ones.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Joseph Schumpeter ranks 10 out of 414. Before him are David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Vilfredo Pareto. After him are Frédéric Passy, Alfred Marshall, François Quesnay, Ludwig von Mises, Klaus Schwab, and John Law.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Joseph Schumpeter ranks 7. Before him are Benito Mussolini, Franz Kafka, John Maynard Keynes, Coco Chanel, Karl Jaspers, and Walter Gropius. After him are Khalil Gibran, Anton Webern, Jaroslav Hašek, Nikos Kazantzakis, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev. Among people deceased in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter ranks 4. Before him are George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, and Gustaf V of Sweden. After him are Johannes V. Jensen, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Lebrun, Heinrich Mann, Willis Carrier, Marcel Mauss, Norman Haworth, and Vallabhbhai Patel.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Joseph Schumpeter ranks 23 out of 1,200. Before him are Ferdinand Porsche (1875), John of Nepomuk (1350), Karel Čapek (1890), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), and Kurt Gödel (1906). After him are Bertha von Suttner (1843), Ernst Mach (1838), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Miloš Forman (1932), and Jaroslav Hašek (1883).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Czechia

Among economists born in Czechia, Joseph Schumpeter ranks 1. After him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851).

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