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For those interested in Schumpeter's TED and the differences between the 
original edition published in German in 1911 (not 1912 !) and the English 
edition of 1934 (which was based on the 1926 German edition which itself 
differed significantly from the 1911 German edition) you need only reach no 
further than the April 2002 issue of The American Journal of Economics and 
Sociology. 
 
The main differences as far as I can tell, had to so with the sociology 
which was deleted from the book perhaps to please the non-imperalist 
economists who were in the 1930s interested sharply distinguishing "modern 
economics" from "sociology."   That story still remains to be told and we 
are planning a Talcott Parsons issue for 2005.  
 
Today, the movement is in reverse: that is we are trying to restore 
something called "institutional economics" to greater stature or even 
something called "economic sociology" as a new field of research in 
sociology.  With the movement in reverse there is naturally great interest 
in the famous chapters (especially Chapter 2) that Schumpeter left out of 
the 1926 edition. 
 
Toward a clarification of these matters, the AJES commissioned the research 
team of Markus C. Becker and Thorbjorn Knudsen to prepare an essay 
"Schumpeter 1911: Farsighted Visions on Economic Development" that appeared 
in the AJES 61:2 (April 2002): 377 - 403.  The research team also supplied 
a first-rate translation of the major parts of chapter 2 of the original 
1911 edition that did not make it into the 1926 edition which in turn were 
not part of the translated 1934 edition.   
 
There are quite a few economic thought articles in each volume of the AJES 
and I urge my fellow historians to take a look at the good work my 
editorial board is doing promoting research in this area.  We are not 
supposed to advertise so I shall not say anything more here. 
 
Laurence S. Moss  
 
 
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