The Passions and the Interests : : Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph / / Albert O. Hirschman.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©1977 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Classics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THE PASSIONS AND THE INTERESTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE. How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions
- PART TWO. How Economic Expansion was Expected to Improve the Political Order
- PART THREE. Reflections on an Episode in Intellectual History
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- INDEX