This paper compares and contrasts the contributions of Joseph Alois Schumpeter and Josef Steindl to the competitive paradigm. Both reject the static nature of traditional profit maximizing analysis and the analytical device of a representative firm. Instead they both opt for a dynamic framework...

We follow Schumpeter's approach to analyzing price movements as set out in Business Cycles. While Schumpeter emphasizes movements in prices of finished manufactured goods, our focus is on the real prices of primary commodities, which are measured by the price of particular commodities or an...

This paper combines Salter's analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki's analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a model of investment with innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. In the estimated model, profit is...