The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (New in Paperback) (Princeton Classics): 2

by Amartya Sen (Foreword), Amartya Sen (Foreword), Jeremy Adelman (Afterword), Albert O. Hirschman (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2013

  $20.40

  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.