1st Edition

The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory

By Joseph A. Schumpeter Copyright 2010
490 Pages
by Routledge

490 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

Joseph A. Schumpeter was a monumental figure in the history and development of economics. This work brings together his brilliant lectures, delivered more than a century ago, in its first English-language paperback edition. Here, readers will discover Schumpeter's search for an economic science devoid of moral or political dogma. The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory works out what people... Read more
1: Introduction to the Transaction Edition; 1: Preface to the First Paperback Edition; 1: Preface; One: Conditions of Development of the Political Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires; 1: The Historical Bureaucratic Polities The Setting and the Problem; 2: The Fundamental Characteristics of the Political Systems and the Social Conditions of Their Development Basic Hypotheses; 3: The Economic Structure of the Historical Bureaucratic Societies; 4: Religious and Cultural Organization and Orientation; 5: Social Organization and Stratification; 6: The Social Conditions and the Institutionalization of the Political Systems; Two: Conditions of Perpetuation of the Political Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires; 7: The Policies of the Rulers; 8: The Political Orientations and Activities of the Major Groups and Strata; 9: The Social Determinants of the Political Processes A Comparative Analysis; 10: The Place of the Bureaucracy in the Political Process; 11: The Place of the Political Process in the Social Structures of the Centralized Empires; 12: Processes of Change in the Political Systems; 13: Conclusions

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Joseph A. Schumpeter