Albert O. Hirschman

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1. Adam Smith

   Author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Essays on Philosophical Subjects, CORRESPONDENCE OF ADAM SMITH (Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, Vol 6)

2. Albert O. Hirschman

   Author of The Passions and the Interests, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy

3. Jon Elster

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4. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contempo, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Legitimation Crisis

5. Max Weber

   Author of From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set), Weber: Political Writings

6. Quentin Skinner

   Author of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 1: The Renaissance, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation

7. J. G. A. Pocock

   Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History

8. Perry Anderson

   Author of Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from antiquity to feudalism

9. Douglass C. North

   Author of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions), Structure and Change in Economic History

10. Mancur Olson

    Author of The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second printing with new preface and appendix (Harvard Economic Studies)

11. Theda Skocpol

    Author of States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China

12. James C. Scott

    Author of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

13. Emma Rothschild

    Author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

14. Barrington Moore

    Author of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

15. C.B. Macpherson

    Author of The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford Paperbacks)

16. Adam Ferguson

    Author of Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society

17. David Armitage

    Author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context)

18. Joseph A. Schumpeter

    Author of Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

19. David Hume

    Author of Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

20. Charles Tilly

    Author of Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons