An Opera About the Last Hero of Capitalism

by Charles MudedeIt’s one act, and the brilliant but complicated Apple CEO is in every scene.KEN HOWARD
We will get to Steve Jobs in a moment. First we must discuss Joseph Schumpeter.During the middle of the Second World War, Schumpeter, a great Austrian-born economist who for a period taught at Harvard, argued that the hero of capitalism, the entrepreneur, was doomed. He saw the only business figure worthy of myth-making being displaced (if not devoured) by managers, boardrooms, and share