Albert O. Hirschman’s Methods. Review of M. Alacevich, "A.O. Hirschman. An Intellectual Biography, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, and J. Adelman, Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman", Princeton (NJ)-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013

Stefan Kesting ()
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Stefan Kesting: Economics Department, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK

Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, 2022, vol. 56, issue 2, 211-222

Abstract: Concentrating on Hirschman’s preferred methods of inquiry and theory construction, this review takes a synthesising critical account of Adelman’s (2013) and Alacevich’s (2021) biographies of the famous economist.

Keywords: Hirschman; Methods; History of Ideas; Development Economics; Participant Observation; Ethnograpy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 B4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.26331/11901

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