In this volume albert hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred wherein the pursuit of material interests so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. The passions and the interests for instance is a study of how capitalism was supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon to be denounced as its worst feature one of of his other great books exit voice and loyalty is about how a seemingly taut and competitive economic system is filled with slack and sloth. The passions and the interests unpacking the sharing economy publication metadata digital platforms generally placed under the sharing economy and various other labels match different groups of users and providers and enable the increase in scale and speed for traditional transactions such as . Economy is potentially the ideal place for reconciling the passions and the interests in the last few years however it has become the domain of conflicting discourses legal disputes and at times violent strikes ie traditional taxi drivers in paris or milan