Capital as Will and ImaginationJoseph Schumpeter's conceptions of entrepreneurship, innovation, and creative destruction have been hugely influential. He pioneered the study of economic development and of technological paradigm shifts and was a forerunner of the emerging field of evolutionary economics. He is not thought of as a theorist of credit supercharged high speed growth, but this is what he became in postwar Japan. As Mark Metzler shows in Capital as Will and Imagination,