On the Concept of Social Value

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1909 · 217 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

I. Methods of pure theory are individualistic, 214. — II. Meaning of the concept of social value, 217. — III. Concept of social value opens up an optimistic view of society and its activities, 222. — IV. Relation of the theory of prices to the concept of social value, 225. — V. Summary, 231.