Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

by Jeremy Adelman

  Come complicare l’economia (Bologna: II Mulino, 1989); selected articles and book chapters for series “I grandi economisti contemporanei,” edited and with an introduction by Luca Meldolesi.

  Entwicklung, Markt und Moral: Abweichende Betrachtungen (Munich: Carl Hanser, 1989); selected essays from 1969 to 1988.

  Come far passare le riforme (Bologna: 11 Mulino, 1990); selected articles and book chapters edited and with an introduction by Luca Meldolesi.

  ARTICLES

  * Articles are included in A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development and Latin America.

  # Articles are included in Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond.

  ** Articles are included in Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays.

  + Articles are included in A Propensity to Self-Subversion.

  ++ Articles are included in Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings and an Interview.

  “Nota su due recenti tavole di nuzialità della popolazione italiana,” Giornale delli Economisti, January 1938.

  “The Commodity Structure of World Trade,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1943.

  “On Measures of Dispersion for a Finite Distribution,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 1943.

  “Inflation and Deflation in Italy,” American Economic Review, September 1948.

  “Disinflation, Discrimination, and the Dollar Shortage,” American Economic Review, December 1948.

  “Devaluation and the Trade Balance: A Note,” Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1949.

  “Postwar Credit Controls in France” (with Robert V. Roosa), Federal Reserve Bulletin, April 1949.

  “Movement toward Balance in International Transactions of the United States” (with Lewis N. Dembitz), Federal Reserve Bulletin, April 1949.

  “International Aspects of a Recession,” American Economic Review, December 1949.

  “The European Payments Union—Negotiations and Issues,” Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1951.

  “Types of Convertibility,” Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1951.

  “Industrial Nations and Industrialization of Under-Developed Countries,” Economia Internazionale, August 1951.

  “Effects of Industrialization on the Market of Industrial Countries,” in Progress of Underdeveloped Areas, ed. Bert F. Hoselitz, (University of Chicago Press, 1952).

  “Guia para el análisis y la confección de recomendaciones sobre la situación monetaria,” Economia Colombiana, October 1954.

  *“Economics and Investment Planning: Reflections Based on Experience in Colombia,” in Investment Criteria and Economic Growth mimeo (Cambridge, MA: Center for International Studies, M.I.T., 1954); published by Asia Publishing House, New York, 1961.

  “Colombia: Highlights of a Developing Economy” (with George Kalmanoff), booklet (Bogota: Banco de la República Press, 1955).

  “Demanda de energía electrica para la C.V.C.” (with George Kalmanoff), Economía Colombiana, June 1956.

  *“Economic Policy in Underdeveloped Countries,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 1957.

  “Investment Policies and ‘Dualism’ in Underdeveloped Countries,” American Economic Review, September 1957.

  “Investment Criteria and Capital Intensity Once Again” (with Gerald Sirkin), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1958.

  *“Primary Products and Substitutes: Should Technological Progress Be Policed?” Kyklos, August 1959.

  “The Strategy of Economic Development,” Farm Policy Forum, vol. 12, 1959–60.

  “Invitation to Theorizing about the Dollar Glut,” Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1960.

  “Exchange Controls and Economic Development: Comments,” in Economic Development for Latin America, ed. H.S. Ellis (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1961).

  * “Second Thoughts on the ‘Alliance for Progress,’ ” The Reporter, May 25, 1961.

  * “Ideologies of Economic Development in Latin America,” in Latin American Issues: Essays and Comments, ed. A.O. Hirschman (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961).

  * “Abrazo vs. Co-existence: Comments on Ypsilon’s Paper,” in Latin American Issues—Essays and Comments, ed. A.O. Hirschman (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961).

  * “Analyzing Economic Growth: A Comment,” in Development of the Emerging Countries, ed. Robert E. Asher et al. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1962).

  * “Economic Development, Research and Development, Policy-Making: Some Converging Views” (with Charles E. Lindblom), Behavioral Science, April 1962.

  “Models of Reformmongering,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1963.

  * “The Stability of Neutralism: A Geometrical Note,” American Economic Review, March 1964.

  * “Obstacles to Development: A Classification and a Quasi-Vanishing Act,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 1965.

  “Out of Phase,” Encounter, September 1965 (special issue on Latin America).

  “The Principle of the Hiding Hand,” The Public Interest, Winter 1967.

  * “The Political Economy of lmport-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1968.

  * “Foreign Aid: A Critique and Proposal” (with Richard M. Bird), Princeton Essays in International Finance, July 1968.

  * “Underdevelopment, Obstacles to the Perception of Change, and Leadership,” Daedalus, Summer 1968.

  * “Industrial Development in the Brazilian Northeast and the Tax Credit Scheme of Article 34/18,” The Journal of Development Studies, October 1968.

  * “How to Divest in Latin America, and Why,” Princeton Essays in International Finance, November 1969.

  * “The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding,” World Politics, March 1970; also in Interpretive Social Science: A Reader, ed. P. Rabinow and W. M. Sullivan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979).

  * “Ideology or Nessus Shirt?” in Comparison of Economic Systems: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, ed. Alexander Eckstein (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).

  # “The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development” (with a mathematical appendix by Michael Rothschild), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1973.

  # “An Alternative Explanation of Contemporary Harriedness,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1973.

  # “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Further Reflections and a Survey of Recent Contributions,” Social Science Information, February 1974.

  # “Policy Making and Policy Analysis in Latin America—A Return Journey,” Policy Sciences, December 1975.

  # “On Hegel, Imperialism, and Structural Stagnation,” Journal of Development Economics, March 1976.

  # “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty—Comments,” American Economic Review. Papers and Proceedings, May 1976.

  # “A Generalized Linkage Approach to Development, with Special Reference to Staples,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 25 supplement, 1977 (Essays in honor of Bert F. Hoselitz).

  # “Beyond Asymmetry: Critical Notes on Myself as a Young Man and on Some Other Old Friends,” International Organization, Winter 1978.

  # “Exit, Voice, and the State,” World Politics, October 1978.

  # “The Turn to Authoritarianism in Latin America and the Search for Its Economic Determinants,” in The New Authoritarianism in Latin America, ed. David Collier (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).

  ** “The Welfare State in Trouble: Systemic Crisis or Growing Pains?” American Economic Review. Papers and Proceedings, May 1980. Reprinted with slight changes in Dissent, Winter 1981.

  # “The Rise and Decline of Development Economics,” in The Theory and Experience of Economic Development: Essays in Honor of Sir W. Arthur Lewis, ed. Mark Gersovitz et. al. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1982).

  # “Morality and the Social Sciences: A Durable Tension,” acceptance paper, The Frank E
. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, P. K. Seidman Foundation, Memphis, TN, October 1980; also in Social Science as Moral Inquiry, ed. Norma Haan et al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983).

  ** “Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?” Journal of Economic Literature, December 1982.

  “The Principle of Conservation and Mutation of Social Energy,” Grassroots Development (Journal of the Inter-American Foundation) vol. 7, no. 2, 1983.

  “University Activities Abroad and Human Rights Violations: Exit, Voice, or Business as Usual?” Human Rights Quarterly, February 1984.

  ** “A Dissenter’s Confession: Revisiting the Strategy of Economic Development,” in Pioneers in Development, ed. Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984).

  # “Inflation: Reflections on the Latin American Experience,” in The Politics of lnflation and Economic Stagnation, ed. L. N. Lindberg and C. S. Maier (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1985).

  * “Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse,” American Economic Review, May 1984; expanded versions in the Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, May 1984, and in Economics and Philosophy, vol. 1, 1985.

  “Grassroots Change in Latin America,” Challenge, September/October 1984.

  ** “In difesa del possibilismo” (In Defense of Possibilism), in I limiti della democrazia, ed. R. Scartezzini (Naples: Liguori 1985).

  ** “On Democracy in Latin America,” New York Review of Books, April 10, 1986.

  “Out of Phase Again,” New York Review of Books, December 18, 1986.

  + “The Political Economy of Latin American Development: Seven Exercises in Retrospection,” Latin American Research Review vol. 22, no. 3, 1987.

  “How the Keynesian Revolution Was Exported from America,” Challenge, November/December 1988, and in Unconventional Wisdom: Essays in Honor of John Kenneth Galbraith, ed. Samuel Bowles et. al. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989).

  + “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 A. Hall (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989).

  + “Having Opinions—One of the Elements of Well-Being?” American Economic Review, May 1989.

  “Opinionated Opinions and Democracy,” Dissent, Summer 1989.

  “Reactionary Rhetoric,” The Atlantic, May 1989.

  “Two Hundred Years of Reactionary Rhetoric: The Case of the Perverse Effect,” Tanner Lectures in Human Values, vol. 10 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989).

  + “The Case against ‘One Thing at a Time,’ ” World Development, August 1990.

  + “Good News Is Not Bad News,” New York Review of Books, October 11, 1990. Also published in Spanish as “Es un Desastre para el Tercer Mundo el Fin de la Guerra Fria?” Pensamiento lberoaroericano no. 18, 1990.

  “L’argument intransigeant comme idée reçue. En guise de réponse a Raymond Boudon,” Le Débat, March–April 1992. A reply to Raymond Boudon’s critique of The Rhetoric of Reaction that appears in the same issue of Le Débat under the title “La rhétorique est-elle réactionnaire?”

  + “Industrialization and Its Manifold Discontents: West, East, and South,” World Development, September 1992 (Original German version in Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Spring 1992).

  + “Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic: An Essay in Conceptual History,” World Politics, January 1993.

  “La rhetorique progressiste et le reformateur,” Commentaire, Summer 1993.

  + “The Rhetoric of Reaction—Two Years Later,” Government and Opposition, Summer 1993.

  + “The On-And-Off Connection between Political and Economic Progress,” American Economic Review, May 1994.

  + “Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Society,” Political Theory, May 1994.

  + “A Hidden Ambition,” preface to new edition of Development Projects Observed (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994).

  + “A Propensity to Self-Subversion,” in Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman, ed. Lloyd Rodwin and Donald A. Schon (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1994).

  “Social Democracy Moves South,” (on the election of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in Brazil), Dissent, Spring 1995.

  ++ “Melding the Public and Private Spheres: Taking Commensality Seriously,” Critical Review, Fall 1996.

  ++ “Fifty Years after the Marshall Plan: Two Posthumous Memoirs and Some Personal Recollections,” French Politics and Society, Summer 1997.

  Further Reading

  BOOKS ON OR ABOUT ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN

  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).

  Ludovic Frobert and Cyrille Ferraton, L’enquête inachevée: Introduction à l’économie politique d’Albert O. Hirschman (Paris: Presses Universitaires, 2003).

  Luca Meldolesi, Discovering the Possible: The Surprising World of Albert O. Hirschman (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).

  Lloyd Rodwin and Donald A. Schön, eds., Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994).

  Simón Teitel, ed., Towards a New Development Strategy for Latin America: Pathways from Hirschman’s Thought (Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1992).

  Following the course of such an itinerant and productive life invariably means the biographer is plunged into an equally varied set of literatures. Rather than submit the reader to an exhaustive list of the books and articles I used along the way, I have chosen instead to direct readers to a selection of texts.

  GERMANY

  Michael Brenner and Derek J. Penslar, eds. In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918–1933 (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1998).

  Michael Brenner, The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996).

  Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).

  Donna Harsch, German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).

  William David Jones, The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999).

  Pamela E. Swett, Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929–1933 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

  Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

  INTERWAR EUROPE

  R.J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini’s Italy: Life under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915–1945 (New York: Penguin, 2006).

  Hanna Diamond, Fleeing Hitler: France, 1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

  Lisa Fittko, Escape through the Pyrenees (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991).

  Sheila Isenberg, A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry (New York: Random House, 2001).

  Julian Jackson, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

  Rosemary Sullivan, Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (New York: Harper Collins, 2006).

  Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994).

  HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

  David C. Atkinson, In Theory and in Practice: Harvard’s Center for International Affairs (Cambridge, MA: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2007).

  Volker R. Berghahn, America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).

  Lewis A. Coser, Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impa
ct and Their Experiences (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984).

  Martin Jay, Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).

  Gerardo Munck and Richard Snyder, eds. Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

  Sylvia Nasar, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011).

  Richard Parker, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005).

  WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION

  Greg Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild Europe (New York: Free Press, 2007).

  François Duchêne, Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994).

  Barry M. Katz, Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942–1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).

  Joseph E. Persico, Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (New York: Random House, 2002).

  DEVELOPMENT, LATIN AMERICA, AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

  Michele Alacevich, The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

  Edgar J. Dosman, The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901–1986 (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2008).

  David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).

  Nils Gilman, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

  Michael E. Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).

  Inderjeet Parmar, Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).