Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond

by Albert O. Hirschman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521282437
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/31/1981
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

1. The rise and decline of development economics; Part I. Around National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade: 2. Beyond asymmetry; Part II. Around The Strategy of Economic Development: 3. The changing tolerance for income inequality in the course of economic development; 4. A generalised linkage approach to development with special reference to staples; 5. The turn to authoritarianism in Latin America and the search for its economic determinants; Part III. Around Journeys Toward Progress: 6. Policy-making and policy analysis in Latin America; 7. On Hegel, imperialism and structural stagnation; 8. The social and political matrix of inflation; Part IV. Around Exit, Voice and Loyalty: 9. Exit, voice and loyalty; 10. Exit and voice; 11. Exit, voice and the state; 12. Three uses of political economy in analysing European integration; Part V. Around The Passions and the Interests: 13. An alternative explanation of contemporary harriedness; 14. Morality and the social sciences; Index of authors cited.