Emma Rothschild: 3 books
by Emma Rothschild, Amartya Sen, Albert O. Hirschman
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the...
The Inner Life of Empires
An Eighteenth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who...
by Emma Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world.