Schumpeter and methodological strife

(Methodos xx) Few authors in economics have triggered as many controversies, misunderstanding and further research perspectives as Joseph Schumpeter. The controversies are not foreign to the very ambiguous features of Schumpeter’s economic thought. There is, now and from quite a long time, a vast literature not only on Schumpeter, but also on the different interpretations of his work. The so-called Schumpeterian hypotheses are a good case in point of a denaturing translation of the author..