“A SPECIAL POSITION TO THE ENTREPRENEUR”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF SCHUMPETER’S ECONOMIC DOCTRINE AND METHOD
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A. Economic Doctrine and Method. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition in English of Schumpeter’s 1914 Epochen der Dogmen—und Methodengeschichte, in scarce dust jacket.
In this brief history of economic doctrines by "the greatest historian economic science has ever had," Schumpeter "gave a special position in the explanation of the process of evolution to the entrepreneur, that is the man who has the flair to seize upon the possibilities that these changes offer and to translate them into economic reality" (Niehans, 451; Roll, 542). Epochen der Dogmen—und Methodengeschichte is "a brief history of economic doctrines written for a multi-volume handbook. It may be considered as a tourist guide to the literature for a trained economist. The leitmotiv is the prevalent body of ideas about scientific method while the substantive results of economic research are left in the background" (Niehans). Initially issued in 1914 in Max Weber's Grundriss der Sozialokonomik. Schumpeter (and his wife) later greatly expanded this work into History of Economic Analysis, posthumously published in 1954, the same year as this translation.
Only lightest soiling to dust jacket. A fine copy.