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Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, And Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process. 2 Vol. Set

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Schumpeter is without doubt one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. Business Cycles [1939] is considered his great work. We reprint the first edition published in 1939 in two volumes. In "Business Cycles" Schumpeter focuses powerfully on the historical role of technological innovation in accounting for the high degree of instability in capitalists societies. He aims to analyze empirically the actual process of economic development using historical and statistical material based on the theoretical framework he developed in earlier writings. He tried to integrate theory and history primarily by means of statistics. It is because he adopted the method of filling in the statistical contours with detailed industrial history that "Business Cycles" comprises two large volumes. A Classic work, not otherwise available in the original two volume format.

1128 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1982

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Joseph A. Schumpeter

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People know Moravian-born Joseph Alois Schumpeter, an American, for his theories of socioeconomic evolution and the development of capitalism.

This political scientist briefly served as finance minister of Austria in 1919. Of the 20th century, the most influential Schumpeter popularized the term "creative destruction."

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March 23, 2024
Todo el libro es una maravilla aunque el análisis meticuloso que expone Schumpeter para cotejar su tesis cíclica es arduo y duro, conforme leía pensaba que una exposición visual donde las capas históricas se desplegarán sincronizadas en vez de separadas, textuales, sería de mucha ayuda para no perder pulso e hilo con tan basta información. Igualmente con empeño y atención se figura su inmensa teoría, enorme intelecto y detalle muestra el mejor jinete, jijijij.
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October 19, 2024
Las cuatro estrellas no son un castigo al análisis de Schumpeter, sino a la edición, que recorta a más o menos la mitad la monumental obra original. Además, se suprimen las notas a pie del autor, y los que leemos a Schumpeter sabemos que es ahí precisamente donde nos deja entrever lo que verdaderamente piensa acerca de lo que nos está contando (¿Qué sería de la monumental "Historia del análisis económico" sin las notas al pie???)
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October 6, 2020
Adquirí este libro a principios de la década y lo tenía en mi Mac, el cual me robaron en abril de 2017 en el Aeropuerto de Santiago de Chile.
¿Cómo puedo obtener una copia?

Muchas gracias,
rjijena@uoc.edu
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