CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
Paradoxical term for an industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from the inside, destroys the old structure, and creates a new one. Austrian American economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase in his economic book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
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