Yerznkyan
B.A. Schumpeter, the Mainstream, and the Evolutionary Theory of
Economic Development.
The article is devoted to the some problems of outsider position of the
evolutionary theory of economic development of J. Schumpeter in the
mainstream considered in the three aspects – semiotic, evolutionary and
ideological. This position in the Russian mainstream is explained: 1)
in the pre-reform (Soviet) period by non-acceptance of the market
competitive system; 2) in the post-reform (post-Soviet) period by
non-acceptance of the Schumpeterian competition, in the Western
mainstream is explained: (1) by difficulty of incorporating
Schumpeter's theory in the mainstream; (2) by absence of the formalized
theory ready to force out the mainstream paradigm of the
linear-competitive theory of economic development. In the author's
opinion an illusion is created that Schumpeter belongs to the
mainstream, hence the mainstream scholars should discover for
themselves the unknown Schumpeter.
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