Marshall, los Webb y Schumpeter en Estados Unidos:descubriendo una nueva realidad económica

Resumo

Marshall, Schumpeter, and the Webbs, three great names in the history of economic thought, traveled to the United States at different times of the so-called Golden Age of capitalism, between the beginning of the last third of the nineteenth century and the Great War. This period coincided with the ascent of the United States to the undisputed world economic leadership. Marshall visited the young country in 1875, the Webbs in 1898, and Schumpeter in 1913. The three discovered a new economic reality that contrasted with the old Europe, but the differences in perception were remarkable, because they visited the country in three different times of its rapid and intense process of transformation from an agrarian and rural society to an industrial and urban one, and also because they watched this new economic reality from very disparate looks.