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

by Albert Hirschman

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ISBN13: 9780691015989
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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. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith.

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Hirschman's volume stands as a principal contribution to the growing literature that is beginning to reshape our understanding of the legitimating beliefs undergirding the rise of the modern market economy.

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A fresh and exciting argument of a fascinating thesis.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-146) and index.
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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction3
Pt. 1How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions7
The Idea of Glory and Its Downfall9
Man "as he really is"12
Repressing and Harnessing the Passions14
The Principle of the Countervailing Passion20
"Interest" and "Interests" as Tamers of the Passions31
Interest as a New Paradigm42
Assets of an Interest-Governed World: Predictability and Constancy48
Money-Making and Commerce as Innocent and Doux56
Money-Making as a Calm Passion63
Pt. 2How Economic Expansion was Expected to Improve the Political Order67
Elements of a Doctrine70
Related yet Discordant Views93
Pt. 3Reflections on an Episode in Intellectual History115
Where the Montesquieu-Steuart Vision Went Wrong117
The Promise of an Interest-Governed World versus the Protestant Ethnic128
Contemporary Notes132
Notes137
Index147

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780691015989
Subtitle:
Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
Foreword:
Sen, Amartya K.
Foreword:
Sen, Amartya K.
Author:
Hirschman, Albert O.
Author:
Sen, Amartya
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Location:
Princeton, N.J. :
Subject:
History
Subject:
Intellectual life
Subject:
Capitalism
Subject:
Economic History
Subject:
Intellectual life -- History.
Subject:
Economics
Subject:
Political Science and International Relations
Subject:
Sociology
Subject:
Political philosophy
Copyright:
1997
Edition Number:
20
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
104-311
Publication Date:
January 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
180
Dimensions:
8 x 5 in 8 oz
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