" The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process. The...

Welche politischen Folgen hat ökonomisches Wachstum? Da die zeitgenössischen Sozialwissenschaften keine befriedigende Antwort auf diese wichtige Frage zu geben vermögen, geht Hirschman zunächst ins 17. und 18. Jahrhundert zurück, als es...

Hirschman draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, to democratization and the drive toward universal...

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms...