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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.

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).

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