The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS) is an economics association aimed at furthering research in the spirit of Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an Austrian-Hungarian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics.-Life:...

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Founded in Germany in 1986, the Society's founding conference was devoted to evolutionary economics

Evolutionary economics

Evolutionary economics is part of mainstream economics as well as heterodox school of economic thought that is inspired by evolutionary biology...

, with special focus on the influence of Schumpeter. Founders included Wolfgang Stolper

Wolfgang Stolper

Wolfgang Friedrich Stolper was an American economist.-Life:Wolfgang Stolper was born in Vienna, the eldest son of liberal economist Gustav Stolper. In 1925 the family moved to Berlin and emigrated in 1933 to the USA. In 1938 Stolper completed his economics studies at Harvard University...

. Past Presidents include Arnold Heertje (1986 - 88), Frederic M. Scherer

Frederic M. Scherer

Frederic Michael Scherer is an American economist. His research specialties include industrial economics and the economics of technological change, on which he has many much-cited works. Since 2006 he has been Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management in the Aetna Chair, in the...

 (1988 - 90) and Dennis Mueller

Dennis Mueller

Dennis C. Mueller is a Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna. The focus of his academic work on the Principal–agent problem, corporate governance and Political Economy- Biography:...

 (1996-98). In 1993 the Society adopted the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, founded in 1991, as its house journal.

In cooperation with the German weekly Wirtschaftswoche

WirtschaftsWoche

Wirtschaftswoche is a German weekly business news magazine. “Wirtschaft” means economy and “Woche” is week. For many years, the magazine was published on Thursday, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Monday. The editorial office is at Düsseldorf....

, the Society awards a Schumpeter Prize.

External links

• International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society