This volume brings together select texts representative of the full range of intellectual output of one of the greatest and most eclectic economists of our time, Albert O. Hirschman. Covering a time span of over forty years, they recall his most prominent books and include many additional themes taken from essays of wide-ranging origin and content. The title How Economics Should Be Complicated has the dual sense of an endpoint and a central and recurrent theme in the author’s experience, which unfolds in his critical-but constructive-relationship with economic theory, his openness to other social sciences and his democratic and possibilist political inspiration. This stands as the basis of an important lesson in intellectual rebirth.