In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman's approach to social-scientific questions. He traces the many strands of Hirschman's thought and their place in his multifaceted body of work, considering their limitations as well as their strengths.
About the Author
Michele Alacevich is professor of economic history and the history of economic thought at the University of Bologna. He is the author of The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years (2009), coauthor of Inequality: A Short History (2018), and coeditor of Hirschman’s The Postwar Economic Order: National Reconstruction and International Cooperation (Columbia, 2022).