Argumentos políticos en favor del capitalismo previos a su triunfo
Prologated by the Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen, this volume reaffirms Hirschman's stature as one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Throughout its pages, the author reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the complex ideological transformation from which capitalism emerged triumphantly.
In pursuit of material interests—always condemned, such as the mortal sin of greed—he was assigned the role of containing man's rebellious and destructive passions. Hirschman offers us a new interpretation of the rise of capitalism emphasizing the continuity between the old and the new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp rupture, characteristic of Marxist and Web-American thinking. The irony of history made capitalism achieve exactly what it had denounced as its worst characteristic: the repr...read more
