As I was thinking of Schumpeter's works in this context, I found this in The Stern Business Fall/Winter 2001, a New York University publication, written by Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus professor of business history at Harvard Business School. When Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy was first published in 1942, it received a modicum of attention, probably because World War II was dominating not only the news but intellectual and economic life as well. A second edition, which appeared in 1946, attracted wider notice. But the third edition, published in 1950 at a high point in the Cold War, when capitalism and socialism were, in fact, competing furiously for the world's allegiance, became an international best-seller. It produced thousands of future citations by scholars in sociology, history, economics, and other disciplines. Translated into at least 16 languages, Business Cycles still sells widely in paperback editions...[I think the author meant to say CSD, not Business cycles.] Later he writes: Meanwhile, in the United States, and to a lesser extent in Western Europe, the phenomenal run-up of securities markets throughout the 1990s piqued sharp new interest in the entrepreneurs who became dot-com millionaires and billionaires. In this new setting, Schumpeter's work on entrepreneurship acquired a compelling new interest. Scholars from many disciplines began to find in his writings either answers to their own questions or valuable maps and guidebooks for new avenues of research. During the 1990s, the number of academic citations to Schumpeter's works actually overtook those to Keynes's, a phenomenon that would have seemed inconceivable a generation earlier. Sumitra Shah