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¿Has Schumpeterian Creative Destruction become more destructive? (¿La destrucción creativa Shumpeteriana se ha vuelto más destructiva?)

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El concepto de destrucción creativa, propuesto por Joseph Schumpeter como el motor del desarrollo capitalista, es bien conocido. Sin embargo, escasamente se reconoce que su parte destructiva constituye un costo social y económico y que sesga, por lo tanto, nuestro cálculo del impacto de la innovación sobre el Producto Interno Bruto, con la notable excepción de Witt (1996). Se debe reconocer que durante la primera y segunda revoluciones industriales la magnitud del componente destructivo de la innovación fue sin duda pequeno, comparado con el valor agregado neto al empleo y al PIB que surgió del cambio técnico. No obstante, nuestra conjetura es que actualmente las nuevas tecnologías están creando frecuentemente productos que son sustitutos cercanos a los que remplazan, los que son devaluados considerablemente en el proceso destructivo. En consecuencia, la contribución de las recientes innovaciones tecnológicas al PIB está probablemente sesgada hacia arriba. Esta nota es un llamado a hacer más investigaciones en la economía de la innovación para descomponer los efectos de esta en sus partes creativas y destructivas, para así poder contar con mejores cálculos de su contribución al PIB o al empleo.

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  • John Komlos, 2016. "¿Has Schumpeterian Creative Destruction become more destructive? (¿La destrucción creativa Shumpeteriana se ha vuelto más destructiva?)," Tiempo y Economía, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, vol. 3(1), pages 9-18, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000485:014451
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    Keywords

    Joseph Schumpeter; PIB; Capitalismo; Empleo;
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    JEL classification:

    • E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • P1 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies

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