biography
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Hirschman, Albert O(tto)
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| lived:
| (1915– )
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| biography:
| Political economist, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied in Paris, London, and Trieste before coming to the University of California, Berkeley (1941). He served in the US Army (1943–5) and worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Board (1946–52), then taught at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia universities before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ (1974–85). He advised the government of Columbia (1952–6). In The Strategy of Economic Development (1958, later revised) and other works, he rejected a ‘balanced growth’ strategy for Third World countries, proposing instead a new model of economic planning which the illustrated in his various studies of Latin-American nations and which became internationally influential. |
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