Economic Growth: Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) Was An

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Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was an other hand, a knowledge worker uses his head and

economist and one of the 20th century's greatest produces knowledge, information and ideas that may be
intellectuals. He is best known for his 1942 book beneficial for the overall system of the business or that
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, as well as the may be the key source in building the business in the
theory of dynamic economic growth known as creative first place.
destruction. He is also credited with the first German
and English references to methodological individualism
in economics. The essential point to grasp is
that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing
with an evolutionary process,

Adam Smith was an 18th-century philosopher


renowned as the father of modern economics, and a
major proponent of laissez-faire economic policies. In his
first book, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," Smith
proposed the idea of the invisible handthe tendency of
free markets to regulate themselves by means of
competition, supply and demand, and self-interest. Smith
is also known for his theory of compensating wage
differentials, meaning that dangerous or undesirable jobs
tend to pay higher wages to attract workers to these
positions, but he is most famous for his 1776 book: "An
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations."

Jean-Baptiste Say's Law roughly says that the


economy is self-regulating so production is the source of
demand but has been interpreted in many ways and is
frequently misunderstood to mean "supply creates its
own demand". Another famous economist, John
Maynard Keynes, criticized his law. Say was heavily
influenced by Adam Smith and promoted the laissez-
faire philosophy. His contemporaries include Thomas
Malthus and David Ricardo.

Richard Cantillon greatly developed this


systematic method of abstractions and
successive approximations. He liberally used
the ceteris paribus method. Through this
analytic method he uncovered "natural"
cause-and-effect relations in the market
economy. The France of Cantillon's day was a
country of great landed feudal estates, the
result of the conquests of previous centuries.
And so Cantillon brilliantly began the
economic analysis in his Essai with the
assumption that the whole world consists of
one giant estate.

Peter Drucker The concept of the knowledge economy


was first used by Peter Drucker in his 1966 book "The
Effective Executive." In this book, the difference between
a knowledge worker and a manual worker was
discussed. According to Drucker, the manual worker
uses his hands and other physical capabilities to
produce and provide services and other goods. On the

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