innovation as violence

The evolutionary perspective. He based his theory on the assumption of usual macroeconomic equilibrium, which is something like "the normal mode of economic affairs". This equilibrium is being perpetually destroyed by entreprenuers who try to introduce innovations. A successful introduction of an innovation disturbs the normal flow of economic life, because it forces some of the already existing technologies and means of production to lose their positions within the economy.

-- A summary of Joseph Schumpeter's work in Evolutionary Economics at Wikipedia.


Innovation is a form of violence. Monoculturalism is the enemy of innovation - its intellectual ghettoism. Monoculturalism only produces efficiency by suffocating alternatives; innovation produces efficiency by being better. Create an environment in which good ideas travel. Engineer self-evolving processes and theories.