ECO100Y1 Lecture : SCHUMPETER

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3 Aug 2010
School
Department
Course
Professor
ECO360Y1 t Economic Growth and Technical Change
Schumpeter (socialist)
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ensure full employment, needs expenditure
- WWII
- 1953 t 1st period of weakness in the post war period, high levels of unemployment
o Korean war
- Capitalism will fail
- No roles for entrepreneurs; entrepreneurs will turn away from business, task of entrepreneur is
to INNOVATE (introduce an un-tried tech, open new source of supply, etc.)
- Technical process is increasing controlled by a team of trained specialist; drives entrepreneurs
away (like amoured knight in the Middle Ages t change in military production function = loss of
knights)
CAPITALISM/ENTREPRENEURS
- Initially we have small/medium businesses replaced by LARGE firms
- Increasingly Automated t less use for entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneur looses power and force as team of specialists make the decisions for the firm
- Even if all the firms were perfectly managed, the end result will be the same, entrepreneurs will
lose economic power; private property (primary shareholders) loses power because too many
SHs
- SHs used to make decisions with entrepreneur
- Large scale enterprise decreases amount of power given to both entrepreneurs and SHS
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- Transformation form capitalism to socialism (primary causes not entirely clear)
o More government intervention
- Rise of multinationalism (1950s)
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- 1973 t CEOs predicted real wages would continue to go up until year 2000 t no one saw that
labour productivity falters
- Economic models did not adapt to changing roles of entrepreneurs
- The giant concerns of microtheorists is always one of rigid prices, restrictive output, and
extinquisher of competition (as compared to SCHUMPETER)
- I know of slow progress in regulation
- There are many forms of socialism
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