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8
. Ibid.

  
9
. Herbert Gintis, interview, 6 Aug. 2009.

10
. AOH, “Olson and Collective Action,” December 1977, box 86, folder2, AOHP.

11
. AOH, “Exit, Voice, and the State,” 1977, in
Essays in Trespassing
, pp. 246–265; Robert Keohane to AOH, 24 Oct. 1977, box 4, folder 5, AOHP.

12
. Clifford Geertz to AOH, 28 Sept. 1978, box 4, folder 5, AOHP; Sir John Elliott, interview, 2 Apr. 2010.

13
. Clifford Geertz to AOH, 3 Nov. 1978, box 4, folder 5, AOHP.

14
. AOH to Clifford Geertz, 27 Apr. 1979, box 4, folder 5, AOHP.

15
. Clifford Geertz,
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist
(Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 127.

16
. Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan, “The Interpretive Turn: A Second Look,” in
Interpretive Social Science: A Second Look
, ed. Rabinow and Sullivan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 1–31.

17
. AOH, “Our View of Social Science,” box 4, folder 12, AOHP.

18
. AOH to KS, 26 Sept. 1975, KSPP.

19
. AOH, “Self-Perception, Mutual Perception, and Historical Development,” 13 Oct. 1977, box 77, folder 5, AOHP; Sir John Elliott, interview, 2 Apr. 2010; David Cannadine, interview, 25 May 2010.

20
. AOH to Mark Gersovitz, 22 Feb. 1980, box 76, folder 5, AOHP.

21
. AOH, “The Rise and Decline of Development Economics,” 1981,
Essays in Trespassing
, pp. 1–24; David Cannadine, interview, 25 May 2010.

22
. “Professor A Hirschman’s Comments on the Final Draft of Science and Technology in the New Socio-Economic Context,” box 8, folder 12, AOHP.

23
. AOH, “Welfare State in Trouble: Systemic Crisis or Growing Pains?” manuscript, box 7, folder 7, AOHP, and final publication in
American Economic Review
70:2 (May 1980), p. 113–116.

24
. Michael McPherson, interview, 4 Aug. 2009.

25
. AOH, “Private and Public Happiness: Pursuits and Disappointments,” The Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics in Honor of Joseph Schumpeter, Princeton University, December 1979, box 72, folder 11, AOHP.

26
. AOH, “Public vs Private” (summer 1978), box 80, folder 3, AOHP; Amartya Sen, interview, 7 Apr. 2010.

27
. AOH to KS, 25 Nov. 1979, KSPP.

28
. The quote from Cervantes is in
Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 23–24.

29
. AOH, “Private and Public Happiness,” Janeway Lectures, December 1979, box 72, folder 11, AOHP.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Robert Keohane to AOH, 11 Apr. 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

33
. AOH, “Private and Public Happiness,” Janeway Lectures, December 1979, box 72, folder 11, AOHP.

34
. AOH to KS, 19 Aug. 1981, KSPP.

35
. AOH,
Shifting Involvements
, p. xvi.

36
. Quentin Skinner to AOH, 17 Dec. 1979, box 80, folder 3, AOHP.

37
. Judith Tendler to AOH, 9 July 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

38
. Lisa Hirschman to AOH, February 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

39
. Robert Lane to Sandford Thatcher, 6 May 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

40
. Joan Scottto AOH, 22 Feb. 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

41
. George Akerlof review, 4 June 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

42
. AOH to Claus Offe, 19 Dec. 1979, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

43
. AOH to Sanford Thatcher, 27 May 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

44
. Ibid.

45
. George Akerlof to AOH, 14 May 1981, box 78, folder 5, AOHP.

46
. AOH, “Comment,” Smygehus Sweden, 20–23 Sept. 1982, box 7, folder 18, AOHP; Steven Maser,
American Political Science Review
, vol. 78 (1984), p. 590; Jan Smith,
American Journal of Sociology
89 (July 1983), p. 228; Robert Heilbroner, “The Way of All Flesh,”
New York Review of Books
, 24 June 1982, pp. 44–46; Jon Elster, “Trespasser,”
London Review of Books
, 16 Sept–6 Oct. 1982; Quentin Skinner to AOH, 2 Feb. 1983, box 5, folder 7, AOHP.

47
. Lewis Coser, “America’s Eclectic Economist,”
New Republic
, 19 and 26 July 1982, pp. 40–42; Peter L. Berger, “History as a Disappointment Machine,
New York Times Book Review
, 18 April 1982, p. 9; AOH to KS, 19 Apr. 1982, KSPP; Michel Massenet, “Les deceptions de la démocratie,”
Le Figaro
, 6 Jan. 1983, p. 17; David Reisman to AOH 2 May 1982, box 77, folder 10, AOHP.

48
. AOH, “Remarks at Berkeley Conference, March 1980,” box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

49
. AOH to David Reisman, 12 Dec. 1983, box 77, folder 8, AOHP.

CHAPTER
19: Social Science for Our Grandchildren

  
1
. “Remarks at Berkeley Conference, March 1980,” box 8, folder 6, AOHP; Michael McPherson, interview, 4 Aug. 2009.

  
2
. AOH to Wolf Lepenies, 18 Aug. 1980, box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  
3
. Published later in
Essays in Trespassing
, pp. 294–306.

  
4
. Daniel Bell to AOH, 14 Dec. 1980 and AOH to DB, 8 Jan. 1981, box 1, folder 8, AOHP.

  
5
. AOH to Robert Solow, 2 Jan. 1980, box 1, folder 8, AOHP.

  
6
. Kenneth Arrow to AOH, 12 Jan. 1981, box 1, folder 8, AOHP.

  
7
. AOH, “Morality and the Social Sciences,” n.d., box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  
8
. Quentin Skinner to AOH, n.d. and Henry Ehrmann to AOH, 20 Dec. 1980, box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

  
9
. Dennis Thompson to AOH, n.d. and AOH to Michael McPherson, 31 July 1980, box 8, folder 6, AOHP.

10
. AOH, “Morality and the Social Sciences: A Durable Tension,” in
Essays in Trespassing
, p. 306.

11
. AOH, “University Activities Abroad and Human Rights Violations: Exit, Voice, or Business as Usual,”
Human Rights Quarterly
6 (February 1984).

12
. Richard Lyman to AOH, 18 Mar. 1982, box 7, folder 19, AOHP.

13
. AOH, “A Dissenter’s Confession,” in
Pioneers in Development
, ed. Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers (Washington, DC: World Bank/Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 87–111.

14
. Terry Karl, interview, 5 July 2012.

15
. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010.

16
. Steve Vetter to AOH, 3 Jan. 1982, box 38, folder 1, AOHP.

17
. María del Carmen Feijoó and Sarah Hirschman,
Gente y Cuentos: educación popular y literatura
(Buenos Aires: CEDES, 1984); Maria del Carmen Feijoo, interview, 6 Aug. 2012.

18
. Memorandum, Anne B. Ternes to Robert Mashek, 2 June 1983, box 37, folder 8, AOHP; Unidentified Citadel Notebook, n.d., box 24, folder 10, AOHP; Elizabeth Jelin, interview, 1 June 2011.

19
. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, p. 55, AOHP.

20
. AOH Note Book DR, Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, pp. 77–78, AOHP.

21
. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010; Sheldon Annis, interview, 29 May 2012; Peter Bell, interview, 26 July 2011.

22
. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010.

23
. IAS Talk, January 1984, box 66, folder 9, AOHP.

24
. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, pp. 8–9, AOHP.

25
. AOH,
Getting Ahead Collectively: Grassroots Experiences in Latin America
(New York: Pergamon Press, 1984), p. 101.

26
. Michael McPherson, interview, 4 Aug. 2009.

27
. AOH to Paul Streeten, 6 Oct. 1983 and AOH, “Reply to Readers,” box 24, folder 10, AOHP.

28
. Dominican Republic Notebook I, box 24, folder 10, p. 107, AOHP.

29
. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, p. 7 and Colombia Notebook II, box 24, folder 10, pp. 256, 312, AOHP.

30
. Colombia II Notebook, box 24, folder 10, p. 152, AOHP.

31
. Latin America 1983 Trip file, undated note on IAF stationery, box 7, folder 11, AOHP.

32
. AOH Note Book, R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, pp. 8–9, AOHP.

33
. SH, Dominican Republic Notebook I, box 24, folder 10, p. 107, AOHP.

34
. SH, Dominican Republic Notebook I, box 24, folder 10, pp. 76, 91, AOHP.

35
. From Latin America 1983 Trip file, IAF letterhead n.d., box 7, folder 11, AOHP.

36
. AOH,
Getting Ahead Collectively
, p. 94.

37
. Mitchell Denburg, interview, 25 May 2012.

38
. AOH Note Book R.D., Col., Peru, Chile, box 24, folder 10, p. 33, AOHP.

39
. Peter Hakim, interview, 26 May 2010.

40
. AOH, “Self-Inflicted Wound,”
New Republic
190:1/2 (January 1984), p. 9.

41
. Peter Bell to AOH, 1 Jan. 1984, box 66, folder 12, AOHP.

42
. “Brown University, Oct., 1984” notes for UN, box 66, folder 7, AOHP.

43
. William Klausner, “Reflections on Bellagio Conference,” 20 Sept. 1985, RF, Unprocessed (A 96), box R2931, series 120, RG 2, RAC.

44
. “For Peter Hakim,” January 1985, and Louis Emmerij to AOH, 11 Aug. 1986, box 66, folder 7, AOHP.

45
. Patricio Meller, interview, 4 June, 2011.

CHAPTER
20: Reliving the Present

  
1
. Quentin Skinner to AOH, 22 Dec. 1984, box 7, folder 11, AOHP.

  
2
. Anthony Marx, interview, 5 Aug. 2009; Elizabeth Jelin, interview, 1 June 2011.

  
3
. Cliff Geertz, “AOH Talk,” PP.

  
4
. Adele Simmons to AOH, 18 Jan. 1996, box 20, folder 5, AOHP.

  
5
. AOH, “States and Social Structures,” February 1982, box 8, folder 10, AOHP.

  
6
. “Trip to Russia,” box 9, folder 2, p. 24, AOHP.

  
7
. Stephen Krasner, interview, 16 Dec. 2009; James Caporaso, “Guidelines for Writing the Papers,” 19 May 1975, and AOH to Caporaso, 16 Dec. 1975, box 9, folder 14, AOHP; Benjamin J. Cohen,
International Political Economy: An Intellectual History
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

  
8
. AOH, “The Welfare State in Trouble,”
Dissent
(Winter 1981), reprinted in
Rival Views
, pp. 163–170; “Reflections on
The Rhetoric of Reaction
,” paper presented to the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, New York, 12 Nov. 1991, box 75, folder 2, AOHP.

  
9
. John Kenneth Galbraith to AOH, 28 Dec. 1988, box 66, folder 17, AOHP; AOH, “How Keynes Was Spread from America,”
Challenge
, November–December
1988, and an expanded version “How the Keynesian Revolution Was Exported from the United States, and Other Comments,” in
The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations
, ed. Peter Hall (Princeton: Princeton University press, 1989), pp. 347–360.

10
. The awards, prizes, and medals rolled in. Here’s an abbreviated catalogue. The American Economic Association named him Distinguished Fellow in 1984. The American Philosophical Society gave him the Thomas Jefferson Medal. The University of Michigan hosted him for the Tanner Lectures; the Academy of Sciences at the University of Budapest also hosted him for a lecture. The government of Argentina decorated him with the Orden de May al Mérito; Brazil’s awarded him its highest honor, the Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul (this one had special meaning because it came straight from Fernando Henrique Cardoso, by then the country’s president); and Colombia’s government gave Hirschman the Orden de San Carlos. The University of Köln gave him the Fritz-Thyssen Prize.

11
. Daniel Bell, Speech to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for the Talcott Parsons Prize, 14 Mar. 1984, box 2, folder 22, AOHP; AOH, “Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse,” in
Rival Views
, pp. 142–162.

12
. Alejandro Foxley, Michael S. McPherson, Guillermo O’Donnell, eds.,
Development, Democracy, and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honor of Albert O. Hirschman
(Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986).

13
. Torcuato di Tella to AOH, 26 Oct. 1989, box 55, folder 56, AOHP; Simón Teitel, ed.,
Towards a New Development Strategy for Latin America: Pathways from Hirschman’s Thought
(Washington, DC: IDB, 1992); Lloyd Rodwin and Donald A. Schön, eds.,
Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman
(Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA: The Brookings Institution and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1994).

14
. AOH, Torino Talk, October 1987, box, folder 3, AOHP.

15
. “A Propensity to Self-Subversion” was originally in Rodwin and Schön,
Re-thinking
, and subsequently became the anchor essay of
A Propensity to Self-Subversion
.

16
. AOH, “Rival Views of the Market,” in
Rival Views
, pp. 105–141.

17
. Philippe Simonnot, “Les mots et les choses,”
Le Monde
, 12 Sept. 1997, p. 12.

18
. Keith Griffin, “An Economist Abroad,”
Times Literary Supplement
, 19 Feb. 1982, pp. 9–10.

19
. AOH, “Linkage Approach to Development, Some Further reflections,” March 1982, São Paulo Conference), box 7, folder 23, AOHP.

20
. Alex Inkeles,
Journal of Economic Literature
21 (March 1983), pp. 79–80.

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