Hirschman / Adelman The Essential Hirschman

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4840-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirschman, Albert O.

Adelman, Jeremy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Adelman, Jeremy

Rothschild, Emma

Sen, Amartya

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Jeremy Adelman vii

-- Development --

Political Economics and Possibilism 1

Underdevelopment, Obstacles to the Perception of Change, and Leadership 35

The Rise and Decline of Development Economics 49

The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development 74

The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America 102

The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding 137

A Generalized Linkage Approach to Development, with Special Reference to Staples 155

-- Markets --

The Concept of Interest: From Euphemism to Tautology 195

Rival Views of Market Society 214

Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse 248

Three Uses of Political Economy in Analyzing European Integration 265

-- Democracy --

Opinionated Opinions and Democracy 284

Reactionary Rhetoric 293

Exit, Voice, and the State 309

Morality and the Social Sciences: A Durable Tension 331

Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Society 345

Afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen 363

Acknowledgments 369

Index 373

Über Autor(innen)

Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned for his contributions to economics, the social sciences, and the history of ideas. Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton).