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Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) was an Austrian-born economist who argued that entrepreneurs drive development through creative destruction, predicted capitalism's success would lead to socialism, and taught at Harvard.

Joseph Spiegel

Joseph Spiegel was a German Jewish immigrant to Chicago who founded a home furnishings store in 1865, the origin of the Spiegel mail-order catalog company.

Joseph Sunnen

Joseph Sunnen (1897–1979) was an American inventor and industrialist who founded Sunnen Products Company in St. Louis in 1924, holding nearly 100 patents in valve tools and precision honing.

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a Jewish court banker to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg, executed in Stuttgart after a trial widely called a judicial murder.

Joseph Taub

Joseph Taub was an American businessman who co-founded Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the payroll services company, with his brother Henry Taub, starting in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1949.

Joseph Terry

Joseph Terry (1793–1850) was an English confectioner who took over a York sweet business founded in 1767 and, using the railways, made Terry's products known across England.

Joseph Tsai (蔡崇信)

Joseph Tsai, also known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwan-born businessman who joined Alibaba as a founding team member in 1999 and has been its chairman since 2023.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907–1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman from Valcourt, Quebec, who invented the snowmobile, launched the Ski-Doo in 1959, and founded Bombardier Inc.

Josh Altman

Josh Altman is an American luxury real estate agent in Los Angeles and a star of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, with career sales of more than $8 billion.

Josh Bell

Josh Carl Bell (born 1978) is a British venture capitalist and founding general partner of Dawn Capital, known for leading investments in iZettle, sold to PayPal for $2.2 billion, and Tink.

Josh Coyne

Josh Coyne is a partner at Kleiner Perkins who joined in 2017 and invests in enterprise software, consumer apps, and financial services, with early positions in Figma, UiPath, Robinhood, and Moveworks.

Josh Flagg

Josh Flagg is an American luxury real estate agent in Beverly Hills and original cast member of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, with career sales surpassing $3 billion by 2023.

Josh Frydenberg

Josh Frydenberg is an Australian Liberal politician who was Treasurer of Australia from 2018 to 2022, overseeing COVID-19 economic support before losing his seat in 2022.

Josh Harris (businessman)

Josh Harris is an American private equity investor who co-founded Apollo Global Management in 1990 and bought the Washington Commanders for a record $6.05 billion in 2023.

Josh Kopelman

Josh Kopelman is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Half.com, sold it to eBay in 2000, and co-founded the seed-stage firm First Round Capital in 2004.

Josh Lehrer

Josh Lehrer is a physician-scientist and biotech executive who served as CEO of gene-editing company Graphite Bio from 2020 to 2023 and now leads Marea Therapeutics.

Josh Mojica

Josh Mojica is a Filipino entrepreneur and social media personality, founder and CEO of Kangkong Chips Original, which he started in 2021 as a high school student in Cavite.

Josh Resnick

Josh Resnick is a physician-investor and Partner at RA Capital Management who leads early-stage healthcare investments and oversees the creation of new drug, device, and diagnostics companies.

Josh Schubkegel

Josh Schubkegel is a trading-technology executive who serves as Co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Chicago Trading Company, an options market-making firm, effective January 2026.

Joshua Angrist

Joshua D. Angrist, born 1960 in Columbus, Ohio, is an American and Israeli economist at MIT who won a quarter of the 2021 Nobel economics prize for causal-analysis methods.

Joshua Becker

Joshua Becker is a German fintech co-founder and chief operating officer of Augustus (formerly Ivy), a Berlin payments company he co-founded in 2022 with Ferdinand Dabitz, Simon Wimmer, and Peter Lieck.

Joshua Cohen (liquid-biopsy scientist)

Joshua Cohen is an American liquid-biopsy scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Haystack Oncology in 2021, a Baltimore cancer-diagnostics company acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2023.

Joshua Easterly

Joshua Easterly is an American financier who co-founded the San Francisco investment firm Sixth Street in 2009, serving as co-president and co-chief investment officer until his 2026 retirement.

Joshua Kushner

Joshua Kushner, born in 1985, is an American venture capital investor, founder of Thrive Capital and co-founder of Oscar Health and Cadre, and the younger brother of Jared Kushner.

Joshua Love

Joshua Love was a New Zealand hospitality entrepreneur from Auckland who founded the Eightyeight Cups coffee chain and stood for The Opportunities Party in 2020.

Joshua M. Levine

Joshua M. Levine, known as Josh Levine, is an American software developer who, as Datek Securities' primary programmer from 1992 to 1998, built the Island ECN that grew to a quarter of Nasdaq's trades.

Joshua Nelson (private equity investor)

Joshua Nelson is a private equity investor and Managing Director who heads the healthcare vertical at THL Partners, a Boston-based investment firm, and serves on its Management, Operating, and Investment Committees.

Jothan Msibi

Jothan Msibi, known as "Mswazi", was a wealthy and feared Pretoria taxi owner who led a national taxi organization and built transport, security, and construction businesses before dying in January 2024.

Journal entry

A journal entry, also called a journalizing record, is the record of one financial transaction in a journal, the book of original entry, expressed as equal debits and credits.

Journal of Econometrics

The Journal of Econometrics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier, founded in 1973, covering theoretical and applied econometrics and ranked among the top three core econometrics journals.