{"product_id":"a-propensity-to-selfsubversion-9780674715585","title":"A Propensity to SelfSubversion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 *\u003cbr\u003e[Hirschman's is] a lucid mind whose original voice is of enduring importance in our age of narrow specialization. -- Aurelian Craiutu * Government and Opposition *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    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","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359094899031,"sku":"9780674715585","price":33.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674715585.jpg?v=1754123564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-propensity-to-selfsubversion-9780674715585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}