Innovation is the outstanding fact in the economic history of capitalist society.

Economists
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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