The process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

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Joseph Schumpeter
Born in Moravia 1883, Schumpeter argued entrepreneurial innovation drives capitalism through creative destruction. After serving as Austria's finance minister, he joined Harvard.
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