Passions and the Interests Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph

Name: Passions and the Interests Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
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ISBN: 9780691160252

ISBN-10: 0691160252

ISBN-13: 9780691160252

Edition: 1977 (Revised)

Authors: Albert O. Hirschman, Amartya Sen, Jeremy Adelman

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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. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Jeremy Adelman is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture and director of the Council for International Teaching and Research at Princeton University. His books include "Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World" and "Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic" (Princeton).



Foreword



Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions


The Idea of Glory and Its Downfall


Man "as he really is"


Repressing and Harnessing the Passions


The Principle of the Countervailing Passion


"Interest" and "Interests" as Tamers of the Passions


Interest as a New Paradigm


Assets of an Interest-Governed World: Predictability and Constancy


Money-Making and Commerce as Innocent and Doux


Money-Making as a Calm Passion



How Economic Expansion was Expected to Improve the Political Order


Elements of a Doctrine



Montesquieu



Sir James Steuart



John Millar


Related yet Discordant Views



The Physiocrats



Adam Smith and the End of a Vision



Reflections on an Episode in Intellectual History


Where the Montesquieu-Steuart Vision Went Wrong


The Promise of an Interest-Governed World versus the Protestant Ethic


Contemporary Notes


Afterword



Notes


Index