A Propensity to Self-Subversion

Albert O. Hirschman

    Introduction

    On Self-Subversion

    Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic
    The Rhetoric of Reaction-Two Years Later
    The Case against "One Thing at a Time"
    Opinionated Opinions and Democracy
    A Propensity to Self-Subversion

    On Self

    Four Reencounters
    My Father and Weltanschauung, circa 1928
    Studies in Paris, 1933-1935
    Doubt and Antifascist Action in Italy, 1936-1938
    With Varian Fry in Marseilles, 1940
    Escaping over the Pyrenees, 1940-41
    A Hidden Ambition
    Convergences with Michel Crozier

    New Forays

    How the Keynesian Revolution Was Exported from the United States
    On the Political Economy of Latin American Development
    Is the End of the Cold War a Disaster for the Third World?
    Industrialization and Its Manifold Discontents: West, East, and South
    Does the Market Keep Us Out of Mischief or Out of Happiness?
    The On-and-Off Connection between Political and Economic Progress
    Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Societies

    Acknowledgments
    Index

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Albert O. Hirschman is Professor of Social Science, Emeritus, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, following a career of prestigious appointments, honors, and awards. Perhaps the most widely known and admired of his many books are Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Harvard) and The Passions and the Interests (Princeton).