Albert O Hirschman
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"Winner of the Talcott Parsons Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences" Albert O. Hirschman is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of many books, including Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and The Strategy of Economic Development. Robert H. Frank is Godwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is the author of Luxury Fever (Princeton).
Why does society oscillate between...
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Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned for his contributions to economics, the social sciences, and the history of ideas. Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton).
Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's...
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A lo largo de los últimos dos siglos y medio se produjeron las principales conquistas emancipatorias de la ciudadanía moderna: igualdad ante la ley (siglo XVIII), participación política (siglo XIX) y derechos sociales (siglo XX). Pero a cada una de estas conquistas le siguió una furiosa ola de reacciones conservadoras tan influyentes social y culturalmente como las propias reformas contra las que se levantaban.
En este verdadero clásico de las...
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Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned for his contributions to economics, the social sciences, and the history of ideas. He is the author of many books, including the influential Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and The Strategy of Economic Development.
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate...
