The modern liberals deny that the concentration of concerns is a intrinsic characteristic to progress of industry. They blame the "government barriers".
But the master, Ludwig von Mises, in their book, Liberalism, Chapter II, Section 7 on cartels and monopolies, said: "The division of labor gives a specialized function to each productive unit in the economy. This process never stops as long as economic development continues. [...]. With the progress of specialization, the area served by an individual supplier must continue to widen. [...]. Undoubtedly this progressive specialization of production tends toward the development in every field of enterprises that have the whole world for their market. If this development is not opposed by protectionist and other anticapitalist measures, the result will be that in every branch of production there will be a relatively small number of concerns, or even only a single concern, intent on producing with the highest degree of specialization and on supplying the whole world."
i'm sure you've made a careful study of his work as well as the work of bohm-bawerk (who was schumpeter's professor and who identified as one of the "ten great economists")
Schumpeter had Karl Marx as #1. Also, Bohm-Bawerk had many students, half of which were Austro-Marxists. But ignoring all that, Schumpeter entirely rejected Bohm-Bawerk's explanation of interest--he denied positive time preference as a categorical law of human action, claiming that interest would not exist under the stationary conditions of circular flow. "We see, therefore, that our static system," says Schumpeter, "does not by any means explain all economic phenomena, e.g., interest and the profit of the entrepreneur." (Josef Schumpeter: Des Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen National-ökonomie, Leipzig, 1908, p.564.). Bohm-Bawerk critiques Shumpeter here: Bohm-Bawerk, "Eine 'dynamische' Theorie des Kapitalizinses," Zietschrift fur Volkswirtschaft Socialpolitik und Verwaltung, Vol. 22, 1913.
Kind of hard to be a Bohm-Bawerkian when you don't accept his theory of interest.
and knutt wicksell, (who schumpeter also regarded highly and whose contributions to monetary theory were utilized in schumpeter's own studies of the business cycle).
Schumpeter's business cycle theory is actually comprised of 5 separate theories, all of which directly contradict the Wicksell-Mises theory of cycles. They deal with long-waves (post-Keynesians love this crap), short-waves, technological shocks, ect. He's also responsible for many of the endogenous growth models we see today.
[Edited: No need to get hostile =D]
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Bohm-Bawerk's capital theory is very interesting. There are many different interpretations of it. Schumpeter believed that he essentially incorporated most of Bohm-Bawerk's framework, as did the neoclassical general equilibrium theorists. Bohm-Bawerk completely denied this. But there is some truth to these claims, which is why Mises devotes so much time to Bohm-Bawerk in HA (and to some extent in TMC).
#1. "ten economists" was written in chronological order. so he did not list karl marx as being #1, he simply discussed him first.
#2. i never said schumpeter adopted bb's theory of interest. however, i would be interested in reading those articles. could you please post links? or maybe indicate how you accessed them (i am assuming you found english translations)?
#3 i never said that schumpeter adopted ABCT. I only said he utilized kw's insights in his business cycle studies. this is not my opinion of course, schumpeter's intellectual connections to kw are elaborated here: http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/27/13/72/PDF/MOSS3.pdf
#4 schumpeter's business cycle theory is actually fairly unrelated to most endogenous growth models. aghio and howitt have based several endogenous growth models on schumpeter's basic insights regarding the connection between technological innovation, economic growth, and business cycles (described in full in their textbook http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=5058), but honestly they are rarely used.
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