The Essential Hirschman / / Albert O. Hirschman; ed. by Jeremy Adelman.

The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with t...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Development
  • Political Economics and Possibilism
  • Underdevelopment, Obstacles to the Perception of Change, and Leadership
  • The Rise and Decline of Development Economics
  • The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development
  • The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America
  • The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding
  • A Generalized Linkage Approach to Development, with Special Reference to Staples
  • Markets
  • The Concept of Interest
  • Rival Views of Market Society
  • Against Parsimony
  • Three Uses of Political Economy in Analyzing European Integration
  • Democracy
  • Opinionated Opinions and Democracy
  • Reactionary Rhetoric
  • Exit, Voice, and the State
  • Morality and the Social Sciences
  • Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Society
  • Afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index