23 mars 2021
48 min
Schumpeter on Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) contains a famous, and minimal, definition of democracy as the competition between political elites to sell themselves to the electorate. Schumpeter wanted to debunk more elevated ideas of the common good and the popular will. Why then has his theory proved so influential for people who want to rescue democracy as much as those who want to diminish it?
Going Deeper:
- Ian Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory (2006)
- Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (2007)
- Jill Lepore, ‘The Disruption Machine, New Yorker (2014)
- (Audio): Creative Destruction, BBC Radio 4
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