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The Wizard of Menlo Park >> BusinessWeek >> "Invention Deficit Disorder"
"The lack of monetary success was strongly linked to two Edison habits: First, he repeatedly refocused on new projects before older ones reached commercial fruition. Then, relentlessly pursued by admirers, the Dean of Inventors proved easily distracted by
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Prophet of Innovation>>WSJ | The Colorful Life of Capital's Champion
Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian-German-American economist who died in 1950 but whose reputation is also ever rising, spent his professional life studying the capitalist dynamic.
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"The lack of monetary success was strongly linked to two Edison habits: First, he repeatedly refocused on new projects before older ones reached commercial fruition. Then, relentlessly pursued by admirers, the Dean of Inventors proved easily distracted by
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Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian-German-American economist who died in 1950 but whose reputation is also ever rising, spent his professional life studying the capitalist dynamic. He concluded, and showed with an avalanche of data, that the ultimate source o
