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How Economics Should Be Complicated
About this book
This volume brings together select texts representative of the full range of intellectual output of one of the greatest and most eclectic economists of our time, Albert O. Hirschman. Covering a time span of over forty years, they recall his most prominent books and include many additional themes taken from essays of wide-ranging origin and content. The title How Economics Should Be Complicated has the dual sense of an endpoint and a central and recurrent theme in the author's experience, which unfolds in his critical—but constructive—relationship with economic theory, his openness to other social sciences and his democratic and "possibilist" political inspiration. This stands as the basis of an important lesson in intellectual rebirth.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Five Theses and an Excursus
- 1 Foreign Trade as an Instrument of National Power
- 2 Disinflation, Discrimination, and the Dollar Shortage
- 3 Devaluation and the Trade Balance
- 4 Balanced and Unbalanced Growth
- 5 Efficiency and Growth of the Individual Firm
- 6 The Contriving of Reform
- 7 Obstacles to Development: A Classification and a Quasi-Vanishing Act
- 8 The Principle of the Hiding Hand
- 9 The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America
- 10 Foreign Aid: A Critique and a Proposal
- 11 “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty”: Introduction and Doctrinal Background
- 12 Political Economics and Possibilism
- 13 Policymaking and Policy Analysis in Latin America. A Return Journey
- 14 Varieties of Consumer Disappointment
- 15 From Private Concerns into the Public Arena
- 16 Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse
- 17 The Concept of Interest: From Euphemism to Tautology
- Bibliography of Albert O. Hirschman’s Work
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
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