political arguments for capitalism before its triumph /
Albert O. Hirschman ; foreword by Amartya Sen ; with a new afterword by Jeremy Adelman.
First Princeton Classics edition.
1 online resource (188 pages)
Princeton classics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. How the interests were called upon to counteract the passions -- part two. How economic expansion was expected to improve the political order -- part three. Reflections on an episode in intellectual history.
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In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Amo.