A través de las fronteras. Los lugares y las ideas en el transcurso de una vida. Entrevista realizada por Carmine Donzelli, Marta Petrusewicz y Claudia Rusconi

by Albert O. Hirschman

Albert Hirschman es considerado uno de los más lúcidos intelectuales contemporáneos. Sus trabajos combinan la economía, la sociología, la ciencia política y la historia. El presente libro registra una conversación con él, llevada a cabo en Princeton, en 1933, en el cual se combina el relato de su vida con los principales elementos de sus los conceptos como "defección/protesta", "violación de fronteras", "oscilación" y "fracasomanía".

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Published December 1, 1994

About the author

Albert Otto Hirschman was an economist and the author of several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of development economics. Here he emphasized the need for unbalanced growth. He argued that disequilibria should be encouraged to stimulate growth and help mobilize resources, because developing countries are short of decision making skills. Key to this was encouraging industries with many linkages to other firms.

His later work was in political economy and there he advanced two schemata. The first describes the three basic possible responses to decline in firms or polities (quitting, speaking up, staying quiet) in Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970). The second describes the basic arguments made by conservatives (perversity, futility and jeopardy) in The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991).