1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007154000403321

Titolo

AMBIENTE e cultura : patrimonio comune dell' umanita' : atti della VII conferenza internazionale ICEF Paestum , 6-10 giugno1997 / a cura di Giovanni Cordini , Amedeo Postiglione

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1999

Descrizione fisica

968 p. ; 24 cm

Locazione

DDCIC

Collocazione

IX C 45

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463595103321

Autore

Hirschman Albert O.

Titolo

Development projects observed / / Albert O. Hirschman ; foreword by Cass R. Sunstein ; afterword by Michele Alacevich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brokkings Institution Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8157-2643-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

The Brookings Classic

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Economic development projects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Albert Hirschman's Hiding Hand; Author's Preface: A Hidden Ambition; Author's Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Principle of the Hiding



Hand; Uncertainties; Latitudes and Disciplines; Project Design: Trait-Taking and Trait-Making; Project Appraisal: The Centrality of Side-Effects; Albert Hirschman Observed; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of  Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.It is in this book that Hirschman first shared his now famous ""Principle of the Hiding Hand."" In an April 2013  New Yorker issue, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an appreciation of the principle, described by Cass S