# Joseph Schumpeter **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** Public thought / artificial intelligence / governance **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Joseph Schumpeter** is a Austrian-American economist and political theorist whose work in this corpus is relevant to creative destruction, democratic competition and the psychology of the typical voter. ## Article Context [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] uses a source-attributed statement from Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) as an independent intellectual object inside its analysis of public competence, technological risk and AI transition governance. The quotation is preserved as that speaker's position rather than treated as Bryant McGill's voice. ## Relationships - [[wiki/AI Transition Governance|AI Transition Governance]] - [[wiki/Public Epistemic Capacity|Public Epistemic Capacity]] - [[wiki/AI Risk Communication|AI Risk Communication]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “Thus the typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes a primitive again.” > **— Joseph Schumpeter**, *Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942* [[reminders/Civilization/The Typical Citizen Becomes Primitive in Politics by Joseph Schumpeter|The Typical Citizen Becomes Primitive in Politics by Joseph Schumpeter]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] — article context and complete attribution.