Destructive creation or creative destruction?

Jean Arrous

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: Reading about the « process of creative destruction » (Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, chap. III and VII), I think Schumpeter should have named it the « process of destructive creation ».

Keywords: Schumpeter; creative destruction; destructive creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B2 B3 L16 L26 O3 P10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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