Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Austrian economist who decamped to Harvard in 1932 and spent the rest of his career there. Brief stint as Austria's Finance Minister in 1919 gave him a taste of actual power before he settled into academic life.
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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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