Alacevich Albert O. Hirschman

An Intellectual Biography
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55330-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman’s approach to social-scientific questions. He traces the many strands of Hirschman’s thought and their place in his multifaceted body of work, considering their limitations as well as their strengths.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alacevich, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. The Formation of an International Political Economist
2. The Politics of Power
3. Pioneer of Development
4. Remaking Development Economics
5. An Interdisciplinary Social Science
6. The History and Theory of Market Societies
7. The Working of Democracy
8. The Legacy of Albert Hirschman
Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Alacevich is an associate professor of economic history and the history of economic thought at the University of Bologna. He is the author of The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years (2009) and coauthor of Inequality: A Short History (2018), among other books.