A Propensity to Self-Subversion

Hirschman, Albert O.

Harvard University Press（1998/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780674715585
• DDC分類 330.01

基本説明

Essays fruitfully reexplore the themes of Latin American development and market society that have occupied him throughout his career.

Full Description

Albert O. Hirschman is renowned worldwide for theories that have been at the forefront of political economics during the last half century. In these twenty essays he 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 that is also present here, reveal the workings of a distinguished mind. They also bring us fresh perspective on the material in his twelve previous books and countless essays.In the substantial essays that open this collection, Hirschman reappraises points he made in such books as Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, The Strategy of Economic Development, and The Rhetoric of Reaction. Subsequent essays fruitfully reexplore the themes of Latin American development and market society that have occupied him throughout his career. Hirschman also forays into new puzzles, such as the likely impact, negative or otherwise, of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 on the Third World, the on-and-off connections between political and economic progress, and the role of conflict in enhancing community spirit in a liberal democracy.

In a rare and particularly welcome section of the book, Hirschman presents autobiographical fragments that reflect his deep involvement in some of the important events of this century. He recollects his flight from Hitler's Germany in 1933, his studies in Paris, his work with the antifascist underground in Italy in 1937-38, and his role in helping Varian Fry in Marseilles, in 1940, to rescue political and intellectual refugees from Vichy France. Such accounts deepen our understanding of how Hirschman's penetrating insights took shape.

Contents

Introduction 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