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Book SynopsisIn these 20 essays Hirschman casts his sharp analytical eye on his own ideas, questioning and qualifying some of his major propositions on social change and economic development. Hirschman's self-subversion, as well as the self-affirmation also present here, bring us fresh perspective on the material in his 12 previous books and countless essays.
Trade ReviewIn an age when economics (like many other disciplines) is becoming more specialised and inward-looking, Hirschman's work makes a refreshing change. His wide-ranging essays deal with big themes--the end of the Cold War and economic development, the connection between economics and politics, the role of the market, the benefits and costs of industrialization...All the essays [here] reveal both Hirschman's focus on deep conceptual issues, and his love of paradox...This book will serve as a reminder than, in addition to the very specialised concerns that increasingly dominate the discipline, there are also important big issues to be addressed, and that there are important things that can and need to be said about them. -- Roger E. Backhouse * The Economic Journal *
[Hirschman's is] a lucid mind whose original voice is of enduring importance in our age of narrow specialization. -- Aurelian Craiutu * Government and Opposition *
Table of ContentsIntroduction On Self-Subversion Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic The Rhetoric of Reaction-Two Years Later The Case against "One Thing at a Time" Opinionated Opinions and Democracy A Propensity to Self-Subversion On Self Four Reencounters My Father and Weltanschauung, circa 1928 Studies in Paris, 1933-1935 Doubt and Antifascist Action in Italy, 1936-1938 With Varian Fry in Marseilles, 1940 Escaping over the Pyrenees, 1940-41 A Hidden Ambition Convergences with Michel Crozier New Forays How the Keynesian Revolution Was Exported from the United States On the Political Economy of Latin American Development Is the End of the Cold War a Disaster for the Third World? Industrialization and Its Manifold Discontents: West, East, and South Does the Market Keep Us Out of Mischief or Out of Happiness? The On-and-Off Connection between Political and Economic Progress Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Societies Acknowledgments Index
