The Rhetoric of Reaction — Two Years Later

Government and Opposition

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 292-314

  Hirschman, Albert O ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1993.tb01317.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, jeopardy, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1991.
2. ‘Two Hundred Years of Reactionary Rhetoric: The Case of the Perverse Effect’, The Tanner Lectures in Human Values, Vol. 10, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1989, pp. 1—32 and ‘Reactionary Rhetoric’, The Atlantic, May 1989, pp. 63 — 70.
3. American Sociological Review, 1, December 1936, p. 895 as cited in Rhetoric, p. 38.
4. See The London Review of Books, Vol. 14, No. 21, 5 Nov. 1992.
5. Rhetoric of Reaction, p. 72.
6. The Strategy of Economic Development, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1958, pp. 118–19.
7. ‘The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America’, in A Bias for Hope, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 106— 114. A particularly insidious role among these resistances had been uncovered and given considerable attention at the time by studies of the effective (as opposed to nominal) protection rate. See my remarks on pp. 107 and 110, fn, 28 of the article.
8. See my ‘Industrialization and its Manifold Discontents-West, East, and South’, World Development, 20, September 1992, pp. 1225 — 32.
9. A general and industry-by-industry survey is in Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick (eds), The Decline of the British Economy, Oxford, Clarendon, 1986.
10. A review of this book and a general survey of the ‘decline’ literature is in M. W. Kirby, ‘Institutional Rigidities and Economic Decline: Reflections on the British Experience’, Economic History Review, 45 1992, pp. 637 — 60.
11. Pierre Rosanvallon, Le Sacre du citoyen: Histoire du suffrage universel en France, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, pp. 130 — 45 and pp. 393-412.
12. Rosanvallon, op. cit., p. 397.
13. Rosanvallon, op. cit. p. 394.
14. ‘A Dissenter's Confession: The Strategy of Economic Development Revisited’ in Hirschman, Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays, New York, Viking Penguin, 1986, pp. 27 — 32.
15. Albert O. Hirschman, `L'argument intransigeant comme idée recue. En guise de réponse a Raymond Boudon’, Le Débat, No. 69 (March —April 1992), pp. 92—109. I have drawn on my reply to Boudon in part of the present paper.
16. Jerry Z. Muller, ‘Albert Hirschman's Rhetoric of Recrimination’, Public Interest, No. 104, Summer 1991, pp. 81–92.
17. According to Niels Bohr, by the way, the progress of science consists in moving from the ‘deep truths’ to the others. Niels Bohr, ‘Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics’, in P.A. Schilpp (ed.), Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, Evanston, II., The Library of Living Philosophers, 1949, p. 240. I owe this reference to Freeman Dyson.
18. Boudon, op. cit., fn. 15, p. 99.
19. This term is used by René Rémond in his highly favourable review in Le Monde, 19 April 1991.
20. See ‘La rhetorique progressiste et la réformateur’, Commentaire, 16, Summer 1993.
21. For the locus classicus of this point, see George J. Stigler, ‘The Economics of Information’, Journal of Political Economy, 61, June 1961, pp. 213 — 25.