Albert O. Hirschman: A 'Beamish' Social Scientist for Our Grandchildren

摘要

The story of Albert O. Hirschman might be read as a collective memory in the form of a personal tale, a re-encounter with a social science that finds hope in disappointment, solutions in tension, and liberty in uncertainty, a style of regarding the social world as a source of possibilities that the intellectual can help summon with a different combination of humility and daring.