Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.