creative destruction
noun
The process by which something is replaced, and thus effectively destroyed, by something newly created; (Economics ) the process by which emerging technologies, industries, and ideas in capitalist economies continuously supplant existing ones, identified by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942; frequently in gale of creative destruction.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Harold Laski (1893–1950), political theorist.
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