The beamish mentor. Albert O. Hirschman was a true maitre a penser
Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Marta Petrusewicz
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/92
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 69-81 File size 553 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2014-092005
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One of the great sages of our times. An economist and a theorist of development, whose highly influential work in economics and politics in developing countries had a profound impact on international economic thought and practice, he was also a renowned social scientist whose studies of the intellectual underpinnings of economic policies and political democracy crossed disciplinary boundaries. Last but not least, he was a great letterato whose whole work, in the words of his biographer Jeremy Adelman, was «the practice of social science as literature». In this essay, the author who was a close friend of the Maestro, offers a combination of personal recollections and a "reading" of Hirschman’s life and thought through a prism of his persistent "beaming" optimism and his capacity for "trespassing" and "self-subversion".
Keywords: Hirschman, possibilism, exit and voice, unbalanced development, shifting involvements, Assignment Rescue
Marta Petrusewicz, Albert Hirschman. Il maestro luminoso in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 92/2014, pp 69-81, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2014-092005