Recognition Of The Inevitability Of Comprehensive Bureaucratization

Access To The National Dividend Is Usually To Be Had Only On Condition Of Some Productive Service Previously Rendered Or Of Some Product Previously Sold. This Condition Is, In This Case, Not Yet Fulfilled. It Will Be Fulfilled Only After The Successful Completion Of The New Combinations. Hence This Credit Will In The Meantime Affect The Price Level.

Innovations Are Changes Which Cannot Be Decomposed Into Infinitessimal Steps.

The Function Of Entrepreneurs Is To Reform Or Revolutionize The Pattern Of Production By Exploiting An Invention Or, More Generally, An Untried Technological Possibility For Producing A New Commodity Or Producing An Old One In A New Way, By Opening Up A New Source Of Supply Of Materials Or A New Outlet For Products, By Reorganizing An Industry And So On.

As A Matter Of Fact, Capitalist Economy Is Not And Cannot Be Stationary. Nor Is It Merely Expanding In A Steady Manner. It Is Incessantly Being Revolutionized From Within By New Enterprise, I.e., By The Intrusion Of New Commodities Or New Methods Of Production Or New Commercial Opportunities Into The Industrial Structure As It Exists At Any Moment.

At The Heart Of Capitalism Is Creative Destruction.