Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings
Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings by Albert O. Hirschman is a collection that showcases the author’s influential contributions to political economy. Published by Zone Books on January 8, 1999, this first edition spans 112 pages and is presented in English. The book explores Hirschman’s innovative ideas on social change and economic development, reflecting on his experiences as both a scholar and an economic advisor.
In this volume, readers will find a blend of personal anecdotes and scholarly insights that forge connections between historical contexts and contemporary issues. Hirschman employs frankness and humor to recount formative moments that have shaped his perspectives on economic assistance in developing countries, democracy, and capitalism. The writings challenge conventional concepts, as Hirschman continually rethinks and reinvents key terms in his scholarship, offering a unique lens through which to view the interplay of economic and social dynamics.
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During the last half century, Albert O. Hirschman has redefined the scope and limits of political economy. His contributions, as both a scholar and an economic advisor, have definitively shaped an innovative program for social change and economic development.
Crossing Boundaries, a collection of Hirschman’s most recent writings, forges new and unforeseen connections between the past and the present, between intellectual life and lived experience. With astonishing frankness and humor, Hirschman recounts some of the most compelling and formative moments of his life that have influenced his thinking about economic and social development, democracy and capitalism. He also reconsiders the key terms of his scholarship ― concepts he is constantly rethinking, subverting, and reinventing.
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