The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman

The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph

Albert O. Hirschman

184 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction economics history philosophy challenging informative fast-paced

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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 ...

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