The Essential Hirschman. - Albert O. Hirschman / Jeremy Adelman (ed.)
KORTE INHOUD
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 our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of styl...
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2013Uitgever: Princeton University Press384 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691159904ISBN-13: 9780691159904Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
