Sumitra Shah wrote: > I am puzzled by the sense I am getting from couple of the posts that Schumpeter was > an Austrian economist. Wasn't he that only by birth and not by his belonging to the > Austrian school? I don't disagree with Sumitra. My only reason for including a specific reference to Schumpeter is that it was he who explicitly used the term methodological individualism. See page 231 of his 1909 QJE article. Lawrence A. Boland