The Passions And The Interests: Political Arguments For Capitalism Before Its Triumph

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.

• | By (Author): Albert O. Hirschman
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0691160252
• | ISBN-13: 9780691160252