"First published as Le Pouvoir de la destruction créatrice, copyright 2020 Odile Jacob" --Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new paradigm -- The enigma of takeoffs -- Industrial revolutions: a blessing or a curse? -- Is competition a good thing? -- Innovation, inequality, and taxation -- The secular stagnation debate -- Convergence, divergence, and the middle-income trap -- Industrialization at all costs? -- Green innovation and sustainable growth -- Innovation: behind the scenes -- Creative destruction, health, and happiness -- Financing creative destruction -- How to manage globalization -- The emergence of the investor-state, then the insurer-state -- Creative destruction and the golden triangle -- Conclusion: The future of capitalism -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

"The solution to inequality, environmental degradation, and other deficits of capitalism is better capitalism. The Power of Creative Destruction draws on cutting-edge research to argue that what we need today is not revolution but reform: pro-competitive policies that enable innovation while compensating for the disruption it causes"--