The Essential Hirschman
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The Essential Hirschman

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The Essential Hirschman

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Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers ???

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 the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice.

Featuring an introduction by Jeremy Adelman that places each of these essays in context as well as an insightful afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen, The Essential Hirschman is the ideal introduction to Hirschman for a new generation of readers and a must-have collection for anyone seeking his most important writings in one book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Political Economics and Possibilism
  7. Underdevelopment, Obstacles to the Perception of Change, and Leadership
  8. The Rise and Decline of Development Economics
  9. The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development
  10. The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America
  11. The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding
  12. A Generalized Linkage Approach to Development, with Special Reference to Staples
  13. The Concept of Interest: From Euphemism to Tautology
  14. Rival Views of Market Society
  15. Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse
  16. Three Uses of Political Economy in Analyzing European Integration
  17. Opinionated Opinions and Democracy
  18. Reactionary Rhetoric
  19. Exit, Voice, and the State
  20. Morality and the Social Sciences: A Durable Tension
  21. Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Society
  22. Afterword
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Index