Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond - Softcover

Hirschman, Albert O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521282438 ISBN 13: 9780521282437

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1981

Synopsis

This book brings together fourteen articles and papers written by Albert O. Hirschman. About half deal with the interaction of economic development with politics and ideology, the area in which Hirschman perhaps has made most noted contributions. Among these papers are 'The Rise and Declines of Development Economics', a magisterial and yet pointed essay in intellectual history and his famous article 'The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development'. Hirschman's ability to trespass - or rather his inability not to trespass - from one social science to another and beyond is the unifying characteristic of the volume. Authoritative, searching surveys alternate here with essays presenting some of Hirschman's characteristic inventions, for instance the 'tunnel effect' and 'obituary-improving activities'. Three of the papers have not been published previously and a number of introductory notes have been especially drafted for the present volume to evoke the intellectual-political climate in which certain groups of essays were written.

About this title

Book Description:

This book brings together fourteen articles and papers written by Albert O. Hirschman. Three of the papers have not been published previously and a number of introductory notes have been especially drafted for the present volume to evoke the intellectual-political climate in which certain groups of essays were written.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0521282438
• ISBN 13: 9780521282437
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320