Creation in Schumpeter’s Theory

La création chez Schumpeter

Tristan Velardo ()
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Tristan Velardo: IEP Lille - Sciences Po Lille - Institut d'études politiques de Lille

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Abstract: The Schumpeterian entrepreneur drives the capitalist process through the introduction of innovations. Alternately impetuous boxer and Don Quixote of the production functions, the entrepreneur is part of a creative process by which emerge novelties which upsets existing economic structures. The "ride" of the entrepreneur cannot be reduced to cost-benefit calculations, but falls under a logic of the gift: the entrepreneur "creates without respite, because he can do nothing else". Nevertheless, he is at the origin of a capitalist economy founded on private property and profit. Capitalism belongs to the logic of economy, that is to say, to a system of appropriation which excludes all forms of gift and gratuitousness. This paper intends to question the apparent tension between a regime of gift and a regime of appropriation in order to highlight the ambivalence of the economic creation.

Keywords: Creation; Innovation; Schumpeter; Gift; Appropriation; création; innovation; don; appropriation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06-23
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2021, Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique 2021 – 1, n° 11, 2021 – 1 (n° 11), pp.87-117. ⟨10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11886-2.p.0087⟩

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DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11886-2.p.0087

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