Hirschman - Crossing Boundaries
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Besonders der dritte Teil des Interviews im hinteren Teil des Buchs ist theoretisch interessant, davor natürlich die Anekdoten aus Hirschmans bewegtem Leben.
Exzerpt
- "I am always more interested in widening the area of the possible, of what may happen, rather than in prediction, on the basis of statistical reasoning, of what will actually happen." (p. 96)
- pointing to the article "The Concept of interest: From Euphemism to Tautology."
- "I like to quote Blake, who said that to understand what is 'enough,' we have to know first what is 'too much'." (p. 99)
- "short poem bei Hölderlin: 'Hast Du Verstand und ein Herz, so zeige nur eines von beiden, Beides verdammen sie Dir, zeigest Du beides zugleich' (If you have brains and a heart, show only one or the other, for you will get credit for neither should you show both at once.)" (p. 104)
- "In the palindrome tradition, I entitled this collection Senile Lines and signed it "Dr. Awkward."" (p. 105)
- "Let me say a word about Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. This book is largely written against those who talk about competition as the solution to every problem." (p. 109)
- "The principal enemy is orthodoxy: to use the same recipe, administer the same therapy, to resolve the most various types of problems; never to admit complexity and try to reduce it as much as possible, while ignoring that things are always more complicated in reality." (p. 110)
