{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/66340974-c490-4310-9bbe-498f90e83cf5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Schumpeter on Democracy","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7cce.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Joseph Schumpeter’s <em>Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy</em> (1942) contains a famous, and minimal, definition of democracy as the competition between political elites to sell themselves to the electorate. Schumpeter wanted to debunk more elevated ideas of the common good and the popular will.&nbsp;Why then has his theory proved so influential for people who want to rescue democracy as much as those who want to diminish it?</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\" https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Capitalism-Socialism-and-Democracy-by-Joseph-A-Schumpeter/9780415567893\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Recommended version to buy</a></p><p><br></p><p>Going Deeper:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691123967/the-state-of-democratic-theory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory (2006)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674034815\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (2007)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Lepore, ‘The Disruption Machine,&nbsp;<em>New Yorker</em>&nbsp;(2014)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qhqpj\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Audio): Creative Destruction, BBC Radio 4</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}