creative destruction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of industrial mutation that continually revolutionizes the economic structure from within.

Word forms

creative destruction

Etymology

Calque of German schöpferische Zerstörung, popularized by economist Joseph Schumpeter.

Related words

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