Foreword Pt. 1How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions The Idea of Glory and Its Downfall Man "as he really is" Repressing and Harnessing the Passions The Principle of the Countervailing Passion "Interest" and "Interests" as Tamers of the Passions Interest as a New Paradigm Assets of an Interest-Governed World: Predictability and Constancy Money-Making and Commerce as Innocent and Doux Money-Making as a Calm Passion Pt. 2How Economic Expansion was Expected to Improve the Political Order Elements of a Doctrine Related yet Discordant Views Pt. 3Reflections on an Episode in Intellectual History Where the Montesquieu-Steuart Vision Went Wrong The Promise of an Interest-Governed World versus the Protestant Ethnic Contemporary Notes Notes Index

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Albert O. Hirschman is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of many books, including the influential Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and The Strategy of Economic Development.

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Winner of the 2003 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award "Hirschman's volume stands as a principal contribution to the growing literature that is beginning to reshape our understanding of the legitimating beliefs undergirding the rise of the modern market economy."--Robert Wuthnow, American Journal of Sociology "A fresh and exciting argument of a fascinating thesis."--Nannerl O. Keohane, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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