Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

The Passions and the Interests

Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph

The Passions and the Interests( )
Author: Hirschman, Albert O.
Foreword by: Sen, Amartyá
Afterword by: Adelman, Jeremy
Series title:Princeton Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-691-16025-2
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $20.95
Book Description:

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.

Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: History / Civilization
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Capitalism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.424 x 0.429 Inches
Book Weight:0.374 Pounds



Featured Books

Beaverland
Philip, Leila
Paperback: $19.99
What Have We Here?
Williams, Billy Dee
Hardback: $32.00
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.