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Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an Austrian political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at Harvard University, where he remained until the end of his career, and in 1939 obtained American citizenship.
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Born 8 February 1883 · Died 8 January 1950 · Q78477
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2009· 1 entry
2005· 1 entry
“Reflections on the Schumpeter I knew well”
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1999· 1 entry
“The Unfinished Business of the Century”
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1963· 1 entry
“The Economics of the 1920s as Seen from Vienna”
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1950· 2 entries
Died 1950-01-08.
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Schumpeter died in his home in Taconic, Connecticut, at the age of 66, on the night of January 8, 1950.
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1945· 1 entry
“The Use of Knowledge in Society”
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1942· 1 entry
Published what became the most popular of all his works, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, reprinted many times and in many languages in the following decades, as well as cited thousands of times
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1939· 1 entry
Schumpeter became a US citizen
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1937· 2 entries
Five years after arriving in the US, in 1937, at the age of 54, Schumpeter married the American economic historian Dr.
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At the age of 54, Schumpeter married the American economic historian Dr
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1933· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1933).
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1932· 2 entries
Emigrated to the United States to become a professor at Harvard University, where he remained until the end of his career, and in 1939 obtained American citizenship
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Schumpeter moved to the United States, and soon began what would become extensive efforts to help fellow central European economists displaced by Nazism
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1931· 1 entry
Was a visiting professor at the Tokyo College of Commerce
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1925· 1 entry
But she died in childbirth the year after
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1921· 1 entry
Became president of the private Biedermann Bank
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1919· 1 entry
Career landmark: finance minister of Austria (1919–1919).
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1918· 1 entry
Schumpeter was a member of the Socialisation Commission established by the Council of the People's Deputies in Germany
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1911· 1 entry
Joined the University of Graz, where he remained until World War I
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1909· 1 entry
After some study trips, he became a professor of economics and government at the University of Czernowitz in modern-day Ukraine
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1906· 1 entry
Received his doctoral degree from the University of Vienna's faculty of law, with a specialisation in economics
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1883· 2 entries
Born 1883-02-08.
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In Triesch, Habsburg Moravia (now Třešť in the Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary), to German-speaking Catholic parents
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