Schumpeter on Democracy

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

Mar 23, 202147:47News & Politics

Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) contains a famous, and minimal, definition of democracy as the competition between political elites to sell themselves to the electorate. Schumpeter wanted t...

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