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For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Joseph A. Schumpeter
Age: 67 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 8
Died: 1950
Died: June 21
Anthropologist
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Economist
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Mexico City
Mexico
Josef Aloys Schumpeter
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
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