Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

by Jeremy Adelman

  38. Lisa Hirschman to AOH, February 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

  39. Robert Lane to Sandford Thatcher, 6 May 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

  40. Joan Scottto AOH, 22 Feb. 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

  41. George Akerlof review, 4 June 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

  42. AOH to Claus Offe, 19 Dec. 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

  43. AOH to Sanford Thatcher, 27 May 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

  44. Ibid.

  45. George Akerlof to AOH, 14 May 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

  46. AOH, “Comment,” Smygehus Sweden, 20–23 Sept. 1982, box 7, folder 18, AOHP; Steven Maser, American Political Science Review, vol. 78 (1984), p. 590; Jan Smith, American Journal of Sociology 89 (July 1983), p. 228; Robert Heilbroner, “The Way of All Flesh,” New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982, pp. 44–46; Jon Elster, “Trespasser,” London Review of Books, 16 Sept–6 Oct. 1982; Quentin Skinner to AOH, 2 Feb. 1983, box 5, folder 7, AOHP.

  47. Lewis Coser, “America’s Eclectic Economist,” New Republic, 19 and 26 July 1982, pp. 40–42; Peter L. Berger, “History as a Disappointment Machine, New York Times Book Review, 18 April 1982, p. 9; AOH to KS, 19 Apr. 1982, KSPP; Michel Massenet, “Les deceptions de la démocratie,” Le Figaro, 6 Jan. 1983, p. 17; David Reisman to AOH 2 May 1982, box 77, folder 10, AOHP.

  48. AOH, “Remarks at Berkeley Conference, March 1980,” box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  49. AOH to David Reisman, 12 Dec. 1983, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

  CHAPTER 19: Social Science for Our Grandchildren

  1. “Remarks at Berkeley Conference, March 1980,” box 8, folder 6, AOHP; Michael McPherson, interview, 4 Aug. 2009.

  2. AOH to Wolf Lepenies, 18 Aug. 1980, box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  3. Published later in Essays in Trespassing, pp. 294–306.

  4. Daniel Bell to AOH, 14 Dec. 1980 and AOH to DB, 8 Jan. 1981, box 1, folder 8, AOHP.

  5. AOH to Robert Solow, 2 Jan. 1980, box 1, folder 8, AOHP.

  6. Kenneth Arrow to AOH, 12 Jan. 1981, box 1, folder 8, AOHP.

  7. AOH, “Morality and the Social Sciences,” n.d., box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  8. Quentin Skinner to AOH, n.d. and Henry Ehrmann to AOH, 20 Dec. 1980, box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  9. Dennis Thompson to AOH, n.d. and AOH to Michael McPherson, 31 July 1980, box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  10. AOH, “Morality and the Social Sciences: A Durable Tension,” in Essays in Trespassing, p. 306.

  11. AOH, “University Activities Abroad and Human Rights Violations: Exit, Voice, or Business as Usual,” Human Rights Quarterly 6 (February 1984).

  12. Richard Lyman to AOH, 18 Mar. 1982, box 7, folder 19, AOHP.

  13. AOH, “A Dissenter’s Confession,” in Pioneers in Development, ed. Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers (Washington, DC: World Bank/Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 87–111.

  14. Terry Karl, interview, 5 July 2012.

  15. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010.

  16. Steve Vetter to AOH, 3 Jan. 1982, box 38, folder 1, AOHP.

  17. María del Carmen Feijoó and Sarah Hirschman, Gente y Cuentos: educación popular y literatura (Buenos Aires: CEDES, 1984); Maria del Carmen Feijoo, interview, 6 Aug. 2012.

  18. Memorandum, Anne B. Ternes to Robert Mashek, 2 June 1983, box 37, folder 8, AOHP; Unidentified Citadel Notebook, n.d., box 24, folder 10, AOHP; Elizabeth Jelin, interview, 1 June 2011.

  19. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, p. 55, AOHP.

  20. AOH Note Book DR, Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, pp. 77–78, AOHP.

  21. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010; Sheldon Annis, interview, 29 May 2012; Peter Bell, interview, 26 July 2011.

  22. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010.

  23. IAS Talk, January 1984, box 66, folder 9, AOHP.

  24. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, pp. 8–9, AOHP.

  25. AOH, Getting Ahead Collectively: Grassroots Experiences in Latin America (New York: Pergamon Press, 1984), p. 101.

  26. Michael McPherson, interview, 4 Aug. 2009.

  27. AOH to Paul Streeten, 6 Oct. 1983 and AOH, “Reply to Readers,” box 24, folder 10, AOHP.

  28. Dominican Republic Notebook I, box 24, folder 10, p. 107, AOHP.

  29. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, p. 7 and Colombia Notebook II, box 24, folder 10, pp. 256, 312, AOHP.

  30. Colombia II Notebook, box 24, folder 10, p. 152, AOHP.

  31. Latin America 1983 Trip file, undated note on IAF stationery, box 7, folder 11, AOHP.

  32. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, pp. 8–9, AOHP.

  33. SH, Dominican Republic Notebook I, box 24, folder 10, p. 107, AOHP.

  34. SH, Dominican Republic Notebook I, box 24, folder 10, pp. 76, 91, AOHP.

  35. From Latin America 1983 Trip file, IAF letterhead n.d., box 7, folder 11, AOHP.

  36. AOH, Getting Ahead Collectively, p. 94.

  37. Mitchell Denburg, interview, 25 May 2012.

  38. AOH Note Book R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, p. 33, AOHP.

  39. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010.

  40. AOH, “Self-Inflicted Wound,” New Republic 190:1/2 (January 1984), p. 9.

  41. Peter Bell to AOH, 1 Jan. 1984, box 66, folder 12, AOHP.

  42. “Brown University, Oct., 1984” notes for UN, box 66, folder 7, AOHP.

  43. William Klausner, “Reflections on Bellagio Conference,” 20 Sept. 1985, RF, Unprocessed (A 96), box R2931, series 120, RG 2, RAC.

  44. “For Peter Hakim,” January 1985, and Louis Emmerij to AOH, 11 Aug. 1986, box 66, folder 7, AOHP.

  45. Patricio Meller, interview, 4 June, 2011.

  CHAPTER 20: Reliving the Present

  1. Quentin Skinner to AOH, 22 Dec. 1984, box 7, folder 11, AOHP.

  2. Anthony Marx, interview, 5 Aug. 2009; Elizabeth Jelin, interview, 1 June 2011.

  3. Cliff Geertz, “AOH Talk,” PP.

  4. Adele Simmons to AOH, 18 Jan. 1996, box 20, folder 5, AOHP.

  5. AOH, “States and Social Structures,” February 1982, box 8, folder 10, AOHP.

  6. “Trip to Russia,” box 9, folder 2, p. 24, AOHP.

  7. Stephen Krasner, interview, 16 Dec. 2009; James Caporaso, “Guidelines for Writing the Papers,” 19 May 1975, and AOH to Caporaso, 16 Dec. 1975, box 9, folder 14, AOHP; Benjamin J. Cohen, International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

  8. AOH, “The Welfare State in Trouble,” Dissent (Winter 1981), reprinted in Rival Views, pp. 163–170; “Reflections on The Rhetoric of Reaction,” paper presented to the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, New York, 12 Nov. 1991, box 75, folder 2, AOHP.

  9. John Kenneth Galbraith to AOH, 28 Dec. 1988, box 66, folder 17, AOHP; AOH, “How Keynes Was Spread from America,” Challenge, November–December 1988, and an expanded version “How the Keynesian Revolution Was Exported from the United States, and Other Comments,” in The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations, ed. Peter Hall (Princeton: Princeton University press, 1989), pp. 347–360.

  10. The awards, prizes, and medals rolled in. Here’s an abbreviated catalogue. The American Economic Association named him Distinguished Fellow in 1984. The American Philosophical Society gave him the Thomas Jefferson Medal. The University of Michigan hosted him for the Tanner Lectures; the Academy of Sciences at the University of Budapest also hosted him for a lecture. The government of Argentina decorated him with the Orden de May al Mérito; Brazil’s awarded him its highest honor, the Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul (this one had special meaning because it came straight from Fernando Henrique Cardoso, by then the country’s president); and Colombia’s government gave Hirschman the Orden de San Carlos. The University of Köln gave him the Fritz-Thyssen Prize.

  11. Daniel Bell, Speech to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for the Talcott Parsons Prize, 14 Mar. 1984, box 2, folder 22, AOHP; AOH, “Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Som
e Categories of Economic Discourse,” in Rival Views, pp. 142–162.

  12. Alejandro Foxley, Michael S. McPherson, Guillermo O’Donnell, eds., Development, Democracy, and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honor of Albert O. Hirschman (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986).

  13. Torcuato di Tella to AOH, 26 Oct. 1989, box 55, folder 56, AOHP; Simón Teitel, ed., Towards a New Development Strategy for Latin America: Pathways from Hirschman’s Thought (Washington, DC: IDB, 1992); Lloyd Rodwin and Donald A. Schön, eds., Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman (Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA: The Brookings Institution and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1994).

  14. AOH, Torino Talk, October 1987, box, folder 3, AOHP.

  15. “A Propensity to Self-Subversion” was originally in Rodwin and Schön, Re-thinking, and subsequently became the anchor essay of A Propensity to Self-Subversion.

  16. AOH, “Rival Views of the Market,” in Rival Views, pp. 105–141.

  17. Philippe Simonnot, “Les mots et les choses,” Le Monde, 12 Sept. 1997, p. 12.

  18. Keith Griffin, “An Economist Abroad,” Times Literary Supplement, 19 Feb. 1982, pp. 9–10.

  19. AOH, “Linkage Approach to Development, Some Further reflections,” March 1982, São Paulo Conference), box 7, folder 23, AOHP.

  20. Alex Inkeles, Journal of Economic Literature 21 (March 1983), pp. 79–80.

  21. Peter Passell, “The Morning Line on the Next Nobel,” New York Times, 18 Oct. 1989, p. D2.

  22. Thomas Schelling, interview, 2 Oct. 2008.

  23. Amartya Sen, interview, 21 Apr. 2006; Kenneth Arrow, interview, 7 Sept. 2009.

  24. Eric Maskin, interview, 29 Nov. 2011.

  25. “Salvador Allende died not because he was a socialist, but because he was an incompetent,” from “Why Allende Failed,” Challenge, vol. 17 (May–June 1974), pp. 1–14.

  26. AOH, “Endogenous Growth Workshop Notes,” October 1991, box 6, folder 1, AOHP.

  27. Amartya Sen, interview, 21 Apr. 2006.

  28. Sabine Offe, interview, 17 Aug. 2011; Claus Offe, interview, 24 Oct. 2009; AOH to Claus Offe, 24 June 1987, box 6, folder 1, AOHP.

  29. Berlin Festvortrag, 21 Nov. 1988, box 54, folder 7, AOHP.

  30. AOH to Claus Offe, 12 Dec. 1988, box 1, folder 13, AOHP; AOH, “Four Re-encounters,” in Propensity, pp. 101–105.

  31. AOH, “Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic,” in Propensity, pp. 9–44.

  32. AOH, “Report on Academic Activities,” June 1991, box 5, folder 13, AOHP.

  33. Peter Gourevitch, interview, 21 July 2011.

  34. AOH, “Closing Comments,” box 5, folder 17, AOHP; “On Democracy in Latin America,” New York Review of Books 10 Apr. 1986, pp. 23–26.

  35. AOH, “LA Diary,” box 5, folder 19, AOHP.

  36. AOH, “The Political Economy of Latin American Development: Seven Essays in Retrospection,” Latin American Research Review 22:3 (1987), pp. 7–36.

  37. AOH to Stephen Holmes, 29 Mar. 1988, box 54, folder 5, AOHP.

  38. Alejandro Foxley, interview, 4 June 2011.

  39. AOH, “Out of Phase Again,” New York Review of Books 18 Dec. 1986; “Social Democracy Moves South,” manuscript, box 5, folder 19, AOHP.

  40. Daniel Patrick Moynihan to AOH, 25 Jan. 1989, box 6, folder 5, AOHP.

  41. AOH, Notes—Summer, 1985; Notes—Summer 1986, box 56, folder 10, AOHP.

  42. Claus Offe to AOH, 14 Jan. 1988; Michael McPherson to AOH, 6 Feb. 1988; Quentin Skinner to AOH, 3 Jan. 1988 and 7 Mar. 1988; AOH to Skinner, 25 Mar. 1988, box 75, folder 4, AOHP.

  43. AOH, “Reactionary Rhetoric,” Atlantic Monthly (May 1989), pp. 63–70.

  44. István Rév to AOH, 25 Apr. 1991, box 75, folder 4, AOHP.

  45. McPherson to AOH, 6 Feb. 1988, box 75, folder 4, AOHP.

  46. AOH, The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. ix–xi.

  47. AOH, “Harvard Lecture” n.d. [probably 1991], box 75, folder 4, AOHP.

  48. AOH to UH, 12 Apr. 1987.

  49. Jamaica Kincaid to AOH, 18 Oct. 1991, box 75, folder 3, AOHP.

  50. Peter Jenkins, “Conservatives’ Progress,” New York Times Book Review, 5 Dec. 1991, p. 3.

  51. AOH to Robert Silvers, 17 Sept. 1991, box 75, folder 3, AOHP.

  52. Peter Gourevitch to AOH, 10 Oct. 1992, box 75, folder 2, AOHP.

  53. See the exchange in Le Débat, 69 (March–April 1992), pp. 92–109.

  CONCLUSION: Marc Chagall’s Kiss

  1. AOH, “Talk,” 7 Apr. 1995, Box 1, folder 1, AOHP.

  2. Hermione Lee, “How to End it All,” Virginia Wolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), p. 95.

  3. Stanley Hoffmann, interview, 7 Nov. 2009.

  4. SH, interview 18 Feb. 2006.

  5. AOH to Michael McPherson, 14 Mar. 1988, box 75, folder 14, AOHP.

  6. AOH to Benjamin Friedman, 9 Aug. 1996 and AOH to Wolf Lepenies, 16 Aug. 1996, box 5, folder 10, AOHP.

  7. AOH to Orlando Fals-Borda, 22 Oct. 1996, box 20, folder 8, AOHP.

  8. AOH, “The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences,” 23 Nov. 1999, box 80, folder 10, AOHP.

  9. AOH to Bruce Mazlish, n.d, box 2, folder 24, AOHP.

  10. AOH, “Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Societies,” Political Theory, vol. 22 (May 1994), pp. 203–218, reprinted in Propensity, pp. 231–248.

  11. Harry Frankfurt to AOH, 25 Mar. 1993, box 72, folder 12, AOHP; “L’Oeuvre revisitée,” Le Monde, 28 Apr. 1995.

  12. Ramona Nadaff to AOH, 19 Dec. 1997, box 56, folder 6, AOHP.

  13. Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die, directed by Laurence Jarvik, 1982.

  14. “Fry Story,” 2 Dec. 1997, box 3, folder 8, AOHP.

  15. AOH to Lisa Hirschman, 13 July 1998, PP.

  16. Peter Gourevitch, interview, 12 Feb. 2011.

  17. AOH to KS, 14 Mar. 2003, box 3, folder 4, AOHP.

  BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY

  Albert O. Hirschman’s long life of writing ranged over an astonishing array of disciplines, themes, and genres. What follows is a bibliography of his publications.

  Published Works of Albert O. Hirschman

  AUTHORED BOOKS

  National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1945; reprinted 1969; paperback edition with new introduction, 1980); translated into Spanish.

  The Strategy of Economic Development (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1958; reprinted 1978 by W. W. Norton; in 1988 by Westview Press); translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Indonesian, Bengali, and Korean.

  Journeys toward Progress: Studies of Economic Policy-Making in Latin America (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1963; reprinted 1973 by W. W. Norton with a new preface); translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

  Development Projects Observed (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1967); translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese; reedited, with a new preface by the author, by the Brookings Institution, 1995.

  Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970); translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, and Hungarian.

  A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development and Latin America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971; reprinted 1985 by Westview Press); translated into Spanish.

  The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977); translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Japanese. Twentieth Anniversary Edition, 1997, by Princeton University Press, with a foreword by Amartya Sen and a second preface by the author.

  Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981); translated into Spanish.

 
Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982); translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Portuguese; being translated into Japanese.

  Getting Ahead Collectively: Grassroots Experiences in Latin America (New York: Pergamon Press, 1984); translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

  Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays (New York: Viking/Penguin, 1986; paperback edition, with new preface, Harvard University Press, 1992); translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

  The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991); translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Japanese.

  A Propensity to Self-Subversion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, and Japanese.

  Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings and an Interview (New York: Zone Books, 1998).

  EDITED BOOKS

  Latin American Issues: Essays and Comments (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961); translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

  BOOKS IN OTHER LANGUAGES (IN ADDITION TO ABOVE NOTED TRANSLATIONS):

  Ascesa e declino dell’economia dello sviluppo (Torino: Rosenberg and Sellier, 1983); a collection of essays edited and with an introduction by Andrea Ginzburg.

  L’économie comme science morale et politique (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 1984); a collection of essays, with an introduction by François Furet; Italian translation with introduction by Luca Meldolesi; translated into Portuguese.

  Vers une économie politique élargie (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1986); lectures given at the Collège de France in 1985.

  Potenza nazionale e commercio estero: Gli anni trenta. l’Italia e la ricostruzione (Bologna: II Mulino, 1987); translation of parts of National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade and of articles on the Italian economy written in the 1930s and ‘40s, edited and with an introduction by Pier Francesco Asso and Marcello de Cecco.