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[log in to unmask] (Sumitra Shah)
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Fri Nov 16 19:15:17 2007
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Roger Sandilands wrote:
"Re Mason Gaffney's shaft at Schumpeter's creative phrase-making, might
one not go further? 
Schumpeter was wrong on the causes of the Great Depression, wrong on
what to do about it (nothing), incoherent in his _Business Cycles_
(1939) - Solow called it a "massive failure" - and, I submit, wrong in
his view of his great hero, the innovating entrepreneur, and on the
dynamics of capitalism."
 

Here's a review of the book by Solow himself:

http://www.powells.com/n/219/tnr/review/2007_07_12

 
Sumitra Shah


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