Passions and the interests

By:

Hirschman, Albert O

Publication details: Princeton Princeton Uni. Press 2013Description: xxvi,161pISBN:

9780691160252

DDC classification:

332.04109 HIR

Contents:

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

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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

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