Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: interests, passions
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1997-01-06
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0691015988
ISBN-13: 9780691015989

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests --so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice --was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Am

Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: subversion, propensity
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1995-09-07
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0674715578
ISBN-13: 9780674715578

Albert O. Hirschman is renowned worldwide for theories that have been at the forefront of political economics during the last half century. In these twenty essays he casts his sharp analytical eye on his own ideas, questioning and qualifying some of his major propositions on social change and economic development. Hirschman’s self-subversion, as well as the self-affirmation that is also present here, reveal the workings of a distinguished mind. They also bring us fresh perspective on the material in his twelve previous books and countless essays. In the substantial essays that

Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: janeway, lectures, historical, economics, eliot, action, involvements, private, interest, public, shifting
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2002-01-07
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0691092923
ISBN-13: 9780691092928

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private concerns. Emerging from this study is a wide range of insights, from a critique of conventional consumption theory to a new understanding of collective action and of universal suffrage.

Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: politics, international, economy, trade, foreign, power, structure, national
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1981-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520040821
ISBN-13: 9780520040823

Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: politics, economics, trespassing, essays
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1981-08-31
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521282438
ISBN-13: 9780521282437

This book brings together fourteen articles and papers written by Albert O. Hirschman. About half deal with the interaction of economic development with politics and ideology, the area in which Hirschman perhaps has made most noted contributions. Among these papers are ’The Rise and Declines of Development Economics’, a magisterial and yet pointed essay in intellectual history and his famous article ’The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development’. Hirschman’s ability to trespass - or rather his inability not to trespass - from

Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: jeopardy, futility, perversity, reaction, rhetoric
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1991-03-01
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 067476868X
ISBN-13: 9780674768680

With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. Hirschman draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, to democratization and the drive toward universal suffrage in the nineteenth century, and to the welfare state in our own century. In eac

Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: recent, essays, society, market, views, rival
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674773039
ISBN-13: 9780674773035

For close to half a century, Albert O. Hirschman has been known for his innovative, contributions to economics, the history of ideas, and the social sciences. Two essays in this collection explore new territory. The title essay distinguishes among four very different conceptions of the characteristics and dynamics of capitalist societies. A related plea for embracing complexity is made in "Against Parsimony", a wide-ranging critique of traditional economic models. In other writings Hirschman revisits his own views on economic development, the concept of interest, and the roles of "exit" and "v