(Paperback)

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

(Paperback, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition)

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals This work offers a 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.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

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.

(Hardback)

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. This book brings together some of the essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers.