Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 193, 195–96, 420, 522, 549; “Erlkönig,” 63; Faust, 54–55
Gold, Mary Jayne, 176–79, 182, 649
Gomes, Severo, 483
Gondi, Jean François Paul de, 465
González Casanova, Pablo, 624
Goodman, Louis, 468, 470, 474, 476
Goodwin, Richard, 360–61
Goody, Jack, 448
Gordon, Lincoln, 368, 375, 380, 650
Göring, Hermann, 207
Gorky, Arshile, 234
Goulart, João, 373, 384
Gourevitch, Alex, 651, 657
Gourevitch, Nick, 651, 657
Gourevitch, Peter, 424–25, 622, 651, 657
Gouzenko, Igor, 286
government intervention, 339
Gramsci, Antonio, 117, 125, 229
grand theories, 12, 14, 115–16, 124, 210, 338–40, 453–54, 647, 655–56. See also details, particulars, and fine-grained analysis
grassroots economic activity, 576–94, 597
Great Depression, 47, 62, 65, 66, 75, 88, 98, 104, 126, 153, 161, 210
Grido del Popolo (publication), 113
Griffiths, Phillip, 639
Gropius, Walter, 172
Grunwald, Joseph, 368–69, 469, 475
Gruppe Leninistiche Organisation. See ORG
Guarneri, Felice, 160
Guatemala, 314
Gudin, Eugenio, 333
Guevara, Che, Guerrilla Warfare, 379
Guia, Renzo, 107–8, 114, 115, 118, 130
Gulick, Charles, Austria from Hapsburg to Hitler, 205
Gustav Line, 230
Haan, Norma, 567
Haberler, Gottfried, 126, 258
Habermas, Jürgen, 567, 618; Legitimation Crisis, 533
Hagen, Everett, 354
Hague Conventions (1907), 245–46
Hakim, Peter, 577–78, 582–85, 587, 594–95, 597
Hamlet, 84, 117, 120, 149, 172, 219, 283, 526, 609
Hanson, Roger, 446
happiness, 236, 549, 552–53
Harberger, Arnold, 378
Harriman, Averell, 257, 263, 266
Harrod, Roy, 350
Harvard Business Review (journal), 561
Harvard Crimson (newspaper), 418
Harvard University, 308, 383–85, 387, 416–20, 424–25, 427–28, 441, 449, 457–61, 495, 498–99, 606, 613, 615
Harvard University Press, 444, 632, 646
Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment), 21, 24
Hayek, Friedrich von, 122–23, 125, 304, 515, 589, 614, 617; The Road to Serfdom, 237–39, 339
headstands, 193, 254, 528, 529
the heart, 526, 572–73
HEC. See École des hautes études commerciales de Paris
Heckscher, August, 367
Heerstrasse Cemetery, Berlin, 82
Hegel, G. W. F., xv, 55–58, 75, 76, 93, 214, 478–79, 487, 510, 547, 569; Phenomenology of Spirit, 56–57, 95–96, 452, 479; Philosophy of Right, 58, 478
Heifetz, Jascha, 254
Heilbroner, Robert, 563
Heine, Heinrich, 40
Helvétius, 503
Hempel, Henri, 620
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 503
Herfindahl, O. C., 217
Herfindahl Index, 217
Hermant, Albert (pseudonym of H), 169–72, 177, 179–80, 185
Hete, Aunt. See Wolf, Fräulein
Heuser, Heinrich, 255
Hicks, John, 122, 349
hiddenness, 345–46, 452–53
Hiding Hand, 400–401, 404–5, 533
Hildebrand, Franz “Franzi” von, 174
Hilferding, Rudolf, 68, 92, 419
Hindenburg, Paul von, 68, 77–78
Hirschman, Albert O.: appearance of, 52, 135, 229, 365, 491, 528–30; character and personality of, 52, 120, 131, 172, 184, 193, 197, 206, 316, 363, 500, 526–30, 561–62, 618, 645 (see also humor); handwriting of, 208, 582; health of, 460, 528, 529, 538–39, 642, 644–52, 656–57; intellectual characteristics of, 4, 9, 12–15, 55, 57, 110–11, 115, 124, 141, 146, 149, 160, 297, 304, 364, 391–92, 434–35, 507, 613, 656 (see also details, particulars, and fine-grained analysis; intellectual influences); photographs of, 46, 52, 53, 55, 61, 62, 86, 109, 174, 175, 191, 222, 222, 224, 248, 250–51, 250, 253, 296, 319, 358, 363, 374, 389, 391, 395, 418, 425, 431, 529, 592, 607, 611, 626, 641, 642, 643, 650; portrait of, as youth, 32, 32, 42–43; voice of, 530, 612, 618
Hirschman, Albert O., works by: A Bias for Hope, 426, 449–52; “The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development,” 463–66, 500–501; “Colombia: Highlights of a Developing Economy,” 312; “The Crisis of the Welfare State,” 560; Crossing Boundaries, 647–48; Development Projects Observed, 386–407, 413, 418, 420, 422, 435, 498, 584, 588; “A Dissenter’s Confession,” 575; “Economics and Investment Planning: Reflections Based on Experience in Colombia,” 321–23; Essays in Trespassing, 543–44, 613; “Étude statistique sur la tendance du commerce extérieur,” 162, 202–3; Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, 12, 393, 438–54, 520, 534, 543, 550, 551, 563, 567, 571, 615, 617; Getting Ahead Collectively, 577–97; “Guidebook for American Investors,” 314; “How to Divest in Latin America, and Why,” 415–16; Journeys toward Progress, 371–80, 383–85, 404, 470, 493, 498, 511, 534, 613; “Morality and the Social Sciences,” 569–73, 598; National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade, 12, 207–17, 219, 226, 238, 241, 254, 255, 263, 272, 282, 328, 604; “New Approaches for the Study of International Integration,” 560; “Obstacles to Development,” 381, 435–36; The Passions and the Interests, 12, 111, 510–24, 526, 538, 548, 550, 562, 567, 569, 610, 618, 630; “Political Economics and Possibilism,” 450–54; “The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America,” 411; “Private and Public Happiness,” 551–57; “Progressive Rhetoric and the Reformer,” 636; A Propensity to Self-Subversion, 646–47; “Reactionary Rhetoric,” 630–31; Rethinking the Development Experience, 654; The Rhetoric of Reaction, 5–6, 12, 72, 629–37, 642, 653; “The Rise and Decline of Development Economics,” 544–45, 560, 575, 578; “The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding,” 433–35, 465; “Self-Inflicted Wounds,” 595; Shifting Involvements, 557–66, 567, 576, 584, 588, 593–94, 596; The Strategy of Economic Development, 13, 328–54, 356, 361–62, 364–65, 391, 404, 435, 437, 587, 615, 653; themes in, 60, 69. See also critical reception; diaries; writings and notes
Hirschman, Elise (granddaughter), 426
Hirschman, Grégoire (grandson), 98
Hirschman, Katia (daughter), 64; birth of, 225, 241; childhood and youth of, 252–54, 276–77, 314–20, 335–36, 361, 372; children of, 426; and France, 426, 548; letters to, 460, 464, 471, 473, 493, 499, 504–5, 522, 557, 564; at Lisa’s death, 651; marriage of, 408; at mother’s death, 657; name of, 240–41; photographs of, 253, 256, 319, 389; portrait of, 372, 499; and religion, 25; role of, in H’s work, 426; visits with, 640–42, 644; as young adult, 408, 424–27, 458, 522
Hirschman, Lisa (daughter): birth of, 276; childhood and youth of, 276–77, 314–20, 335–36, 361, 372; death of, 651; letter from, 558; marriage of, 425; photographs of, 256, 319, 389; portrait of, 372, 499; as young adult, 408–9, 424–25, 526
Hirschman, Sarah (wife), 64, 483, 606; adult reading groups conducted by, 498, 580, 590; background of, 192–93; and Berlin, 617–20, 622; and Brazil, 627; in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 416–17, 498–99; character and personality of, 193, 316; and Colombia, 283, 303–5, 309–11, 314–20, 323–25; courtship of, 191–93, 206; death of, 656–57; education of, 192–93, 225; family life for, 276–77; and France, 548; on H, 115–16, 144, 247; H’s relationship with, 45, 115, 134–35, 280, 364, 420, 505, 527, 543; letters to, 8, 195, 227–28, 230, 231–34, 236, 240, 248–51; at Lisa’s death, 651; marriage of, 193–98, 207, 221, 224–25, 241, 252–53, 279–80, 336, 527–28; and Mexico, 314; and New Haven, 335–36; and the 1960s, 425, 429; photographs of, 191, 224, 296, 319, 389, 391, 395, 527, 592, 641, 642, 643; pregnancies of, 225, 240, 254; in Princeton, 499�
�500; role of, in biography, 11; role of, in H’s work, 207–8, 388, 578–85, 588–91, 646; and Russia, 192–93, 531, 603–4; and security file, 285
Hirschman Doctrine, 366
Hirschmann, Betty (aunt), 35
Hirschmann, Carl (father): background of, 33–36; character and personality of, 16, 36–38, 40, 74; death of, 1, 81–84, 651; and Dietrich, 20; heroism of, 81, 620, 651; H’s relationship with, 31, 37–41, 82–84; Jewishness of, 22, 26, 33–36, 50; marriage of, 29–30, 34–36, 49–50; medical career of, 16, 27, 29, 33–34, 36–38, 49–50, 84, 183, 651; photographs of, 37–38, 39, 81, 525, 620; politics of, 41
Hirschmann, Eva (sister): childhood of, 18, 24, 26, 31, 37, 43, 48–50, 82, 108–9, 499; children of, 257; departure from Berlin, 155–56; H’s relationship with, 44–45, 149–50; letters to, 185, 281, 320; marriages of, 249, 257; photographs of, 109; relationship of, with mother, 31; and religion, 24; return to Berlin of, 499
Hirschmann, Fanny (grandmother), 33
Hirschmann, Hedwig (Hedda, Mutti) [mother], 32; attitude of, toward Carl’s family, 34–36; boarding house run by, 94–95; character and personality of, 36, 40; death of, 334; and death of Carl, 81–82; departure from Berlin, 156; education of, 29; family of, 27–31, 47; first marriage of, 29; H’s relationship with, 31–33, 74, 83–84, 95–97, 249–50, 257, 320, 334–35; letters to, 83–84, 92–96, 102, 118, 139, 165–67, 185–86, 281; marriage to Carl, 29–30, 34–36, 49–50; and Nazi ascendency, 87, 94–95; nickname of, 31; and religion, 24, 26; remittances to, 188, 320; social aspirations of, 30–31, 35, 47, 50; Ursula’s relationship with, 31–34, 45, 74, 250, 257; during WWI, 17
Hirschmann, Samuel (grandfather), 33
Hirschmann, Ursula (sister), 450; arrest of, 156–57; childhood of, 18, 31–36, 43–45, 48–50, 499; and Communism, 87–88, 101–2, 105–6, 114, 292; education of, 45; H’s relationship with, 45–47, 54, 57, 78, 87–88, 105–7, 194, 231–32, 243, 250, 275, 334–35, 603; illness of, 603, 640; letters to, 6, 46–47, 158, 167, 190, 194–95, 197, 200, 204, 254–55, 257–58, 260, 266, 275, 276, 279, 281, 287, 310, 320, 334–35, 337, 344, 349, 353, 384, 396, 408–9, 416, 420, 423, 427, 428, 441, 617, 633; marriage of, 110, 112, 114, 139, 140, 151, 156, 229, 231–32, 243; memoirs of, 31, 35–36, 45, 105, 111, 114, 140, 651; in Paris, 86–87, 100–101; photographs of, 46, 86, 139; political involvement of, 65–67, 72–73, 78–80, 103, 572, 662n16 (see also and Communism); pregnancies and children of, 139, 140, 151, 229, 230, 243, 250, 250, 256, 335; relationship of, with father, 50, 651; relationship of, with mother, 31–34, 45, 50, 74, 250, 257; remittances and care packages to, 256–57, 260, 264; return to Berlin of, 499, 616–17; romances of, 45–47, 70, 86–87, 100, 106–10; in Rome, 249, 257, 264; and Spanish Civil War, 137–38; as women’s leader, 603
Hiss, Alger, 274
historical explanation, 13, 111–12, 210, 214. See also alternatives, in politics and historical explanation; details, particulars, and fine-grained analysis
history of ideas, H’s study of, 502–24
Hitler, Adolf, 1, 19, 63, 64, 66, 68, 76–79, 99, 101, 104, 112, 127, 128, 150, 152, 155, 165, 207, 240, 244–46, 571
Hobbes, Thomas, 505, 507, 508, 630
Hobsbawm, Eric, 13
Hoffman, Paul, 265, 271–72, 276, 280
Hoffmann, Inge, 417, 499, 642
Hoffmann, Stanley, 417, 418, 425, 428, 458, 499, 573–74, 642, 650
holiday card, 4–5, 5, 332
Holmes, Stephen, 625
Holocaust, 648–49
homo economicus (economic man), 435, 469, 507, 517–19, 526, 546, 600
honorary degrees, 600, 606, 608, 613, 619, 631
honors. See awards and honors
hopefulness. See optimism and hopefulness
Horkheimer, Max, 223
Hoselitz, Bert, 302
hostage crisis, Iran, 551
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 278
Hughes, H. Stuart, 227
Huguenots, 169–70
Huisman, Georges, 184
Hull, Cordell, 182
humanism, 9. See also civic humanism
human nature, 504, 515, 523, 553, 565. See also self, concepts of
human rights, 484, 486, 502, 531, 554, 574, 580, 589
Human Rights Quarterly (journal), 574
Humboldt, Alexander von, 619
Humboldt University of Berlin, 75
Hume, David, 209, 503, 514, 534
humor, 4–6, 41, 45. See also laughter
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 631
Hungary, 211
Huntington, Samuel, 362, 380–83, 418, 427, 465, 522; Political Order in Changing Societies, 462
Hurtado, Hector, 481
IAS. See Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton
Ibañez del Campo, Carlos, 378
idealism, 340. See also German idealism
ideas, power and effect of, 123, 354, 412–13. See also petites idées
ideology: constraints of, 116; H’s suspicion of, 115, 143, 145, 297, 612, 627–28; in Latin America, 370, 627–28; relation of individual to group through, 559; in United States, 627–28
Iglesias, Enrique, 596
Illia, Arturo, 449
imagination, 15, 214, 565
IMF. See International Monetary Fund
imperialism, economic causes of, 159–60, 163, 209–11
impossibility theorem, 533, 550–51, 552
improvability, 14, 451, 584, 654
in books, 448
India, 387–91, 597
indices of concentration, 204, 217
individualism: common interests vs., 515, 523, 535; in H’s thought, 237–40, 552; methodological, 123–24. See also methodological individualism; private life
Indochina, 328
Indonesia, 384
industrialization, 410–12, 420–21, 477
inequality: of income, 459, 459, 462, 464–65; perception of, 464–65; between states, 212–13; tolerance for, 459, 459, 464–65. See also disequilibria
inflation, 264, 268–69, 368, 378–79, 457, 519, 546
influence effect, 211
influence of H, 366, 407, 448–49, 455, 465, 467, 608, 613–16, 653–57. See also reputation
influences on H. See intellectual influences
informal economy, 589
Inkeles, Alex, 613–14
insights, 337, 349, 393, 400, 455, 625
instability. See disequilibria
Institut d’économie appliquée, Paris, 267
Institut de recherches économiques et sociales, Sorbonne, 159–61
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, 461–62, 471, 475–80, 491, 493–501, 505–6, 537–38, 541–42, 548, 559, 568, 576, 599–602, 608, 615, 618, 627, 639. See also School of Social Science, IAS, Princeton University
Institute for Industrial Promotion, 312
Institute for Pacific Studies, 161
Institute for Public Administration, 405
institutional economics, 533
institutional reviews, 386–407, 576–85
Instituto Torcuato di Tella, 472, 608
integration, economic, 269–75
intellectual influences, 110–18, 121, 143–46, 338–43, 489–93, 507
intellectuals: attitudes of, 3–4; criticisms of, 198–99; H’s place among, xiv, 14–15, 98–102, 105, 120–25, 148, 153–54, 188, 198–99, 326–27, 353, 362–63, 455, 461, 484, 542, 599–600, 604, 655 (see also academia, Hirschman’s perceptions of and role in); Latin American, 307, 366, 369, 379, 412–13, 467–68, 482; organic, 377; prewar emigration of, 2; and public life, 565
intelligibility, limits of, 238, 357–58
Inter-American Development Bank, 368, 608
Inter-American Dialogue, 595
Inter-American Foundation, 576–85, 578, 589, 592–95, 597, 613
interdisciplinarity, 356, 418–19, 432, 443–46, 495, 542, 557, 608
interests, 510–24
Intermarium, 164–65, 189–90
; Internal Security (McCarran) Act, 278
International Bank, 278
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 281, 295–96. See also World Bank
International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, 161–62
international economics, 125–26, 160–62, 189–90, 208–17. See also trade
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 287, 329, 624, 628
International Monetary Fund and Bank, 254
International Organization (journal), 604
international political economy, 604
interpretation. See translation and interpretation
interpretive social science, 465, 539–40, 600
intransigence, 632, 634
investment, in economic development, 329, 346–47. See also divestment
Invisible Hand, 346, 400–401, 462, 511, 514, 516, 518, 534
Iran, 551
Iraq, 634
Iron Front, 72
irrigation, 393–95
Isenberg, Sheila, A Hero of Our Own, 649
Isherwood, Christopher, 19
Island of Sylt, 20
Istituto di Statistica, University of Trieste, 141
Italian language, 107–8, 618
Italian Socialist Party, 108, 113
Italy: actions leading to WWII, 150, 152, 164; anti-Semitism in, 150–52; development research in, 387; economy of, 142, 159–63; H’s US military service in, 233–39, 241–42; invasion of Abyssinia by, 127, 139, 159–60; politics in, 112–13, 117, 147–48, 229–30, 262; population growth in, 141; postwar, 229, 234–36, 260–62, 264, 267–68; prewar, 150–52; in WWII, 167, 226, 230–31
Jablonski, Ernst, 86–87
James, Lawrence C., 247
James, Susan, 500
Japan, 150, 164, 241
Jaramillo, Cipriano Restrepo, 282
Jarvik, Laurence, Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die, 648
Jaszi, George, 124, 257, 276, 277, 310, 321
Jaszi, Helen, 276, 277, 310
Jaszi, Oskar, 124
Jelin, Elizabeth, 480, 580, 581, 589, 590, 598, 600
Jenkins, Peter, 635
Jeopardy Thesis, 630, 631, 633–34
Jewish Daily Forward (newspaper), 100, 137
Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala), 21, 24
Jewish Labor Committee, 171, 178
Jewish Museum, 649
Jewishness: family’s relation to, 21–25; H’s sense of, 25, 87, 98, 571
Jewish Question, 25
Jews: assimilation of, 21–28, 41, 50–51, 77; in Berlin, 21–28; Christian conversion among, 21–24; emancipation of, 21; in Germany, 21–24; ghetto Jews, 22, 25–26; and medical field, 33–34; Ostjuden, 25–26, 33–36, 50, 154, 221; social stratification among, 22. See also anti-Semitism
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