TY - GEN AU - Hirschman, Albert O. TI - Passions and the interests SN - 9780691160252 U1 - 332.04109 PY - 2013/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton Uni. Press N1 - CONTENTS Foreword, by Amartya Sen ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xxi Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 3 PART ONE. How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions 7 The Idea of Glory and Its Downfall 9 Man "as he really is" 12 Repressing and Harnessing the Passions 14 The Principle of the Countervailing Passion so "Interest" and "Interests" as Tamers of the Passions 31 Interest as a New Paradigm 42 Assets of an Interest-Governed World: Predictability and Constancy 48 Money-Making and Commerce as Innocent and Doux 56 Money-Making as a Calm Passion 63 PART TWO. How Economic Expansion was Expected to Improve the Political Order 67 Elements of a Doctrine 70 1. Montesquieu 70 2. Sir James Steuart 81 3. John Millar 87 Related yet Discordant Views 93 1. The Physiocrats 96 2. Adam Smith and the End of a Vision 100 PART THREE. Reflections on an Episode in Intellectual History Where the Montesquieu-Steuart Vision Went Wrong 117 The Promise of an Interest-Governed World versus the Protestant Ethic 1*8 Contemporary Notes 13s Afterword by Jeremy Adelman 137 Notes 145 Index 155 ER -