IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucm/ijohet/v10y2023i2p91-103.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Capitalism, Populism and Democracy: Revisiting Samuelson’s Reformulation of Schumpeter
[Capitalismo, populismo y democracia: revisando la reformulación de Schumpeter por Samuelson]

Author

Listed:
  • Emilio Ocampo

    (Universidad del CEMA)

Abstract

En la década del 70’ y principios de los 80’, Paul Samuelson reformuló la predicción formulada por Joseph Schumpeter en Capitalismo, socialismo y democracia reemplazando socialismo por populismo. Según Samuelson, la “democracia populista†había logrado su mayor desarrollo en el Cono Sur. Observó a la Argentina como un caso paradigmático que probaba su teoría. La tesis de Samuelson establecía que una fuerte demanda electoral de igualdad y una antipatía hacia el negocio impedía el crecimiento económico y sostenido. En aquel entonces, Samuelson también sostenía que las economías avanzadas de Occidente podrían seguir el mismo camino que la Argentina. La revolución de Reagan y de Thatcher refutaron su hipótesis. Sin embargo, la emergencia populista en Europa y Estados Unidos en años recientes parece rehabilitarla. El objetivo de este ensayo es revisar y establecer una crítica a la teoría de Samuelson y evaluar su relevancia y utilidad hoy.

Suggested Citation

  • Emilio Ocampo, 2023. "Capitalism, Populism and Democracy: Revisiting Samuelson’s Reformulation of Schumpeter [Capitalismo, populismo y democracia: revisando la reformulación de Schumpeter por Samuelson]," Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Dpto. Historia e Instituciones Económicas I., vol. 10(2), pages 91-103.
  • Handle: RePEc:ucm:ijohet:v:10:y:2023:i:2:p:91-103
    DOI: 10.5209/ijhe.90271
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92793
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.5209/ijhe.90271?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Samuelson; Schumpeter; Capitalism; Socialism; Democracy.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General
    • B30 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - General
    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ucm:ijohet:v:10:y:2023:i:2:p:91-103. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Águeda González Abad (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feucmes.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.