阿尔伯特•赫希曼代表作品，冯克利根据2013年英文版最新翻译
阿尔伯特•赫希曼是当代伟大的知识分子之一，他的著作改变了我们对经济发展、社会制度、人类行为的认识，也改变了我们对身份认同、忠诚、义务的性质和意义的理解。把此书称为赫希曼最杰出的贡献之一，可谓实至名归。
——阿马蒂亚•森（1998年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者）
阿尔伯特•赫希曼邀请我们穿过词义变化的迷宫，为反讽而开怀，为危途而担忧，但他不仅与读者对话，他也与古人对话。他一生都在让他的思想先辈们成为一个真正的家庭，他习惯于回到它的成员那儿寻找安慰、论题和灵感。正是由于这个缘故，阅读赫希曼的体验，让人觉得是在观察我们当代一位大思想家与古人的对话。……本书既是对古人之间论辩史的研究，同时也是与打开了通往我们今天道路的古人的论辩。
——杰里米•阿德尔曼（普林斯顿大学历史学教授，赫希曼传记作者）
内容简介：
在本书中，赫希曼通过对17和18世纪欧洲思想生态的田野式调查，就商业社会在兴起时如何获得道德合法性作出了新的阐释，为资本主义发生学提供了一个更加一般性的视角。
赫希曼发现，在资本主义兴起的过程中，一直在进行着一场有关人性这一概念的战争，几百年来，“人被普遍视为一个舞台，上演着理性与欲望之间惨烈而无法预见的战斗，后来则是不同欲望之间的战斗” 。 揭示这场战斗的剧情，回顾有关人性的辩论，就是本书的核心。
赫希曼将这一漫长的战斗描述为一个内生的过程：17、18世纪的欧洲思想家们从欲望中分解出“利益”，使之成为一种不同于其他欲望的特殊欲望，以用这种温和、无害的欲望来平抑和驯化其他暴力、有害的欲望。从而，利益成为沟通、平衡欲望和理性的桥梁，使欲望变成融入“理性”的欲望，使理性成为替“欲望”服务的理性。这种从利益的角度处理欲望的方式，促成了古老的人性论的一次制度主义转折，使得商业社会与资本主义获得了正当性。
阅读本书，就像在观察当代一位大思想家与古人的对话。

Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar Europe. Between 1946 and 1952, he worked as an economic analyst in the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, focusing on the reconstruction of Europe and the Marshall Plan. In that capacity, Hirschman wrote a number of reports about European economic policies, the first efforts at intra-European cooperation, and the uncertainties that surrounded the shaping of a new international economic order with the United States at its core.
The Postwar Economic Order presents a collection of these interrelated reports, which offer incisive firsthand analysis of postwar Europe and give a behind-the-scenes view of American debates on European economic recovery. They feature nuanced and sophisticated discussion of topics such as the postwar “dollar shortage,” U.S.-European relations, and the first steps toward European economic integration. Hirschman provides original and perceptive interpretations of the struggles that European governments faced along their paths toward economic recovery. Throughout, Hirschman’s stylistic gifts and characteristic ways of reasoning are on full display as he highlights the counterintuitive and paradoxical aspects of economic and political processes. Shedding new light on the origins of European economic cooperation, this book provides unparalleled insight into the development of Hirschman’s thinking on economic development and reform.