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Albert O Hirschman — The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility,

Hirschman, Albert O. *The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy*. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.

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