TY - BOOK AU - McCraw, Thomas K. TI - Prophet of innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction SN - 0674025237 (alk. paper) AV - HB119.S35 M43 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, KW - Economists KW - Biography KW - United States KW - Capitalism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-693) and index; L`Enfant terrible, 1883-1926: Innovation and economics -- Prologue: Who he was and what he did -- Leaving home -- Shaping his character -- Learning economics -- Moving out -- Career takeoff -- War and politics -- Gran Rifiuto -- Annie -- Heartbreak -- The adult, 1926-1939: Capitalism and society -- Prologue: What he had learned -- New intellectual directions -- Policy and entrepreneurship -- The Bonn-Harvard shuttle -- Harvard -- Suffering and solace -- The Sage, 1939-1950: Innovation, capitalism, and history -- Prologue: How and why he embraced history -- Business cycles, business history -- Letters from Europe -- To leave Harvard? -- Against the grain -- The courage of her convictions -- Alienation -- Capitalism, socialism and democracy -- War and perplexity -- Introspection -- Honors and crises -- Toward the mixed economy -- History of economic analysis -- A principle of indeterminateness -- L`Envoi -- Epilogue: The legacy ER -