We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global Economy news every morning. Albert Hirschman, the American economist who has died at 97, had a huge impact on debates in ...

To consider the life story of development economist turned moral philosopher Albert Hirschman is to appreciate that no other generation is likely to accumulate the experience of the European émigrés ...

Ever heard of him? I hadn’t, until I read Malcolm Gladwell’s review of a new biography of the late 20th century economist. Look: “The Principle of the Hiding Hand,” one of Hirschman’s many memorable ...

This is a wonderful book about a superb political economist. Adelman invested many years in this admiring biography, which allows readers to fully appreciate the diversity of Albert Hirschman’s many ...

EWING — Freedom fighter, savior to hundreds of European intellectuals during World War II, and an esteemed social scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Albert O. Hirschman died ...

The book has been translated into Persian by Mohammadreza Farhadipur. An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O.

The son of a neurosurgeon, Albert Otto Hirschman was born in Berlin on April 7 1915, but left Germany in 1933 for France, where he studied economics, finance and accounting. After taking up a one-year ...

ALBERT HIRSCHMAN knew what he was talking about when he called one of his books “Essays in Trespassing”. He was an extraordinarily peripatetic practitioner of the dismal science. Born in Berlin in ...