Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings

Hirschman, Albert O.

ISBN 10: 1890951048 / ISBN 13: 9781890951047

Published by Zone Books, New York, 1998

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Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 112 pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine cocked. Dust Jacket slightly marked and creased. Covers slightly marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Economics; Modern; Politics & Government. ISBN: 1890951048. ISBN/EAN: 9781890951047. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 59651.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings
• Publisher: Zone Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890951048
• ISBN 13: 9781890951047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

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Synopsis

Gathered here for the first time in one volume are recent writings of interdisciplinary range, erudite sophistication, and limitless curiosity.

During the last half century, Albert O. Hirschman has single-handedly redefined the scope and limits of political economy, in theory and in practice. His contributions as both a scholar and an economic advisor have definitively shaped an innovative program for social change and economic development. Gathered here for the first time in one volume are recent writings of interdisciplinary range, erudite sophistication, and limitless curiosity.In two essays on commensality and the "invention" of democracy in classical Greece, and on the workings and making of the Marshall Plan, Hirschman shows how his personal and political experience allow him to forge new connections between the past and the present, between intellectual life and lived experience. The third piece, "Trespassing," is an interview Hirschman gave in Italian in 1993, which he has translated and edited for this volume. Although in the past Hirschman has resisted autobiographical meditation, here he recounts―with frankness, humor, and insight―some of the most compelling and formative moments of his life divided between the "European" and the "American" years. Not only does he discuss how his personal experiences have shaped and influenced his thinking about economic and social development, democracy and capitalism, he also reveals the "key terms" of his scholarship―concepts he is constantly rethinking, subverting, and reinventing.

About the Author

Albert O. Hirschman is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His many publications include Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, The Passions and the Interests, and A Propensity to Self-Subversion.