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11
. Charles Lindblom, memo to Hirschman, n.d., box 68, folder 15, AOHP.

12
. AOH, interview, 15 July 2002.

13
. “Soviet Bloc-Latin American Economic Relations and United States Policy,” Project RAND Research Memorandum, 28 Sept. 1959, box 80, folder 8, AOHP.

14
. AOH to Altiero Spinelli, 31 Mar. 1962, PP.

15
. AOH, “Second Thoughts on the Alliance for Progress,”
The Reporter
, 25 May 1961, reprinted in
Bias for Hope
, pp. 175–182.

16
. AOH, interview, 15 July 2002.

17
. AOH to UH, 14 June 1958 and 23 Aug. 1958, PP.

18
. AOH, interview, 29 July 2002.

19
. Economics 1 Lecture on Economic Development, June 1968, box 71, folder 3, AOHP.

20
. Colin Bradford, interview, 7 Aug. 2009.

21
. Richard Bird, interview 5 Aug. 2009; Peter Kenen, interview 10 Mar. 2010; Judith Tendler, interview, 2 Aug. 2009.

22
. Robert Picciotto to AOH, 7 Oct. 1985, AOH to Robert Picciotto, 14 Oct. 1985, box 59, folder 2, AOHP.

23
. Dauzat interview.

24
. “Staff Report, Annual Meeting of the Board, 1959,” Century Fund Archives, New York.

25
. Notes on “Draft Memorandum by AOH,” Century Fund Archives.

26
. AOH, interview, 22 July 2002.

27
. AOH, “Memorandum on Twentieth Century Fund Study on Latin America,” 24 Nov. 1959, box 69, folder 8, AOHP.

28
. AOH, “Ideologies of Development in Latin America,” in AOH (ed.),
Latin American Issues
(New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961), esp. p. 36.

29
.
1960 Annual Report
(NY: Twentieth Century Fund, 1960), pp. 31–32.

30
. “Some Notes by the Author,” box 69, folder 3, AOHP.

31
. Enrique Peñalosa to AOH, 29 Oct. 1962, box 68, folder 13, AOHP.

32
. AOH and SH, interview, 1 Aug. 2005.

33
.
1962 Annual Report
(NY: Twentieth Century Fund, 1962), p. 35.

34
. Ibid.

35
. Enrique Peñalosa to AOH, 3 Dec. 1962, box 68, folder 13, AOHP.

36
. AOH, interview, 22 July 2002; Celso Furtado to AOH, 29 Jan. 1962, box 68, folder 13, AOHP.

37
. Lincoln Gordon to AOH, 29 Jan. 1962, box 69, folder 1, AOHP.

38
. “Fals Borda,” n.d.; Carlos Lleras Restrepo, box 40, folder 7, AOHP.

39
. “Albert O. Hirschman Diary, Brazil and Colombia, Aug. 12–Sept 12, 1957,” folder 336, box 46, series 300, RG 6 (1957), RAC.

40
. Fals-Borda,
El Hombre y La Tierra en Boyacá: Bases Socio-Históricas para una Reforma
Agraria (Bogotá: Documentos Cololmbianos, 1957); SH, email to author, 12 Sept. 2007.

41
. “Brazil,” box 39, folder 12, AOHP.

42
. Clotario Blest, Eduardo Frei, Salvador Allende, interviews by AOH, box 40, folder 3, AOHP.

43
. AOH, “Some Notes by the Author on Journeys Towards Progress,” p. 4, box 69, folder 3, AOHP.

44
. Lincoln Gordon to AOH, 3 Sept. 1963, box 68, folder 9, AOHP.

45
. AOH, interview, 29 July 2002; AOH, “Obstacles to Development,” box 10, folder 16, AOHP; “Obstacles to Development: A Classification and a Quasi-Vanishing Act,”
Economic Development and Cultural Change
13:2 (July 1965), pp. 385–393.

CHAPTER
13: Sing the Epic

  
1
. F. Champion Ward to AOH, 6 Dec. 1963, General Correspondence, 1963, C-1453, Ford Foundation Archives, New York.

  
2
. AOH to UH, 15 Mar. 1964, PP; Andrew W. Cordier to AOH, 23 Mar. 1964, PP.

  
3
. AOH to UH, 20 June 1964, PP.

  
4
. AOH to J. Burke Knapp, 14 Mar. 1963, Projects Evaluation—Professor Albert O. Hirschman—Vol. 1, Series No. 4225: Operations Policy Files, Projects and Studies—General 1946–68, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 1; see also Michele Alacevich, “Albert O. Hirschman and Project Evaluation at the World Bank,” unpublished ms. in author’s possession.

  
5
. Alexander Stevenson, interview, 17 Oct. 2003; Robert E. Asher to Robert D. Calkins, memorandum, 18 Apr. 1964, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 1.

  
6
. Alexander Stevenson to Escott Reid, office memorandum, 3 Mar. 1964, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 1.

  
7
. Robert F. Skillings to Syed S. Husain, 26 Feb. 1964, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 1.

  
8
. AOH to UH, 20 June 1964.

  
9
. Francine R. Frankel,
India’s Political Economy, 1947–1977: The Gradual Revolution
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), pp. 201–216.

10
. “India DVC,” DPO file, box 57, folder 2, AOHP.

11
. AOH to UH, 10 July 1965, PP.

12
. AOH, “Nigeria Notes,” DPO file, box 57, folder 2, AOHP.

13
. AOH, “Ideas-Miscellaneous,” DPO file, box 57, folder 2, AOHP.

14
. AOH, INDIA-DVC, p. 1, DPO file, box 57, folder 2, AOHP.

15
. Ibid., p. 4.

16
. AOH to UH, 4 Feb. 1965, PP.

17
. AOH, “Ideas-Miscellaneous, DPO file, box 57, folder 2, AOHP.

18
. AOH, “Uganda Notes,” DPO file, box 57, folder 2, AOHP.

19
. “AOH, “A Study of Selected World Bank Projects—Some Interim Observations,” August 1965, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 1.

20
. Hans Adler, “Comments on Professor Hirschman,” 22 Sept. 1965; Mario Piccagli to H.B. Ripman, 22 Sept. 1965, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 1.

21
. AOH to Kenneth Bohr, 18 Oct. 1965, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 1.

22
. AOH to UH, 29 Sept. 1966, PP.

23
. AOH, “Thailand Notes,” DPO file, box 57, folder 2, AOHP.

24
. Ibid.; AOH to Walter Salant, 7 Feb. 1967, box 57, folder 1, AOHP.

25
. AOH, review of W. A. Lewis,
Political Sciences Quarterly
82:1 (March 1967); “Out of Phase,”
Encounter
(September 1965), pp. 21–23.

26
. Sandy Stevenson to AOH, 29 Dec. 1967, box 10, folder 4, AOHP.

27
. Herman G. van der Tak to AOH, 20 Dec. 1966, box 57, folder 1, AOHP. Kenneth A. Bohr to AOH, 14 July 1966, AOH to Herman G. van der Tak, 27 Dec. 1966, Raihan Sharif, “Draft Check List of Points for Examining Project Design and Economic Evaluation of Projects,” 17 July 1967, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 2.

28
. AOH to Tom Schelling, 27 July 1966, box 57, folder 15, AOHP.

29
. Walter Salant to AOH, 1 June 1966, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 2; Nathan Rosenberg to AOH, 19 Jan. 1967 and AOH to Walter Salant, 7 Feb. 1967, box 57, folder 1, AOHP.

30
. Irving Kristol to AOH, 26 July 1966 and Goran Ohlin to OH, 13 Aug. 1966, box 57, folder 2, AOHP; Andrew Kamarck to AOH, 28 Oct. 1966, WBGA–Hirschman Vol. 2.

31
. AOH to Hans Singer, 9 Dec. 1968, box 57, folder 14, AOHP.

32
. Edward S. Mason and Robert E. Asher,
The World Bank since Bretton Woods
(Washington: Brookings Institution, 1973), p. 250.

33
. AOH, interview, 4 Aug. 2002.

34
. AOH to Theodore Moran, 2 Jan. 1973, box 68, folder 9, AOHP.

35
. AOH to UH, 3 July 1966; Alain Salomon, interview, 13 Apr. 2010.

36
. AOH to UH, 2 July and 3 Sept. 1967, PP.

37
. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, interview, 6 July 2012.

38
. AOH, “A Dissenter’s Confession: The Strategy of Economic Development Revisted,” in
Rival Views
, p. 104.

39
. AOH, “The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America,”
Quarterly Journal of Economics
82 (February 1968), pp. 2–32, reprinted in
Bias for Hope
, pp. 85–123; for more on fundamental vs. nonfundamental see AOH, “The Welfare State in Trouble,” in
Rival Views
, pp. 163–168; Fernando Henrique Cardoso, interview, 6 July 2012.

40
. Ibid.

41
. “Underdevelopment, Obstacles to the Perception of Change, and Leadership,”
Daedalus
97:3 (Summer 1968), pp. 925–937.

42
. Richard Bird, interview, 5 Aug. 2009.

43
. AOH, “Foreign Aid: A Critique and a Proposal,”
Princeton Essays in International Finance
, 69 (July 1969), reprinted in
Bias for Hope
, pp. 197–224; Sandy Stevenson to AOH, 29 Dec. 1967, box 10, folder 4, AOHP.

CHAPTER
14: The God Who Helped

  
1
. AOH to Sam Bowles, 21 Jan. 1970, box 67, folder 1, AOHP.

  
2
. AOH to UH, n.d. and 2 July 1967, PP.

  
3
. Stanley Hoffmann, interview, 7 Nov. 2009.

  
4
. Sam Bowles, interview, 7 Oct. 2008.

  
5
. “Hirschman Receives Littauer Chair,”
Harvard Crimson
, 31 Mar. 1967.

  
6
. Richard Bird, interview, 5 Aug. 2009.

  
7
. “Faculty Radicals,”
Harvard Crimson
, 18 Nov. 1974.

  
8
. Peter Gourevitch, interview, 21 July 2011.

  
9
. AOH to UH, 14 Sept. 1965, PP.

10
. AOH to UH, 2 Sept. 1966, PP.

11
. SH, interview, 25 July 2005.

12
. Parmar Inderjeet,
Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), pp. 200–208; AOH to Kalman Silvert, 3 Dec. 1967, General Correspondence, GEN-72, Ford Foundation Archives.

13
. “Competition vs Monopoly,” November 1967, box 60, folder 5, AOHP.

14
. Kenneth Arrow, interview, 6 Aug. 2009.

15
. Alexander Gerschenkron to AOH, 9 Nov. 1966, box 60, folder 6, AOHP.

16
. AOH to UH, 9 Dec. 1967, PP.

17
. Kalman Silvert to AOH, 15 Jan. 1968, General Correspondence, GEN-72, Ford Foundation Archives.

18
. AOH,
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
(Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1970), p. 105.

19
. AOH to UH, 10 July and 8 Sept. 1968, PP;
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
, p. 101.

20
. AOH to UH, 20 Oct. 1968, PP.

21
. David C. Atkinson,
In Theory and in Practice: Harvard’s Center for International Affairs
(Cambridge MA: Center for International Affairs, 2007), p. 137.

22
. Roger Rosenblatt,
Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969
(New York: Little Brown, 1997).

23
. AOH to UH, 8 Sept. 1968, PP.

24
. SH to UH, 21 Feb. 1969, PP.

25
. SH to UH, 9 June 1969, PP.

26
. Cited in
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
, p. 27, fn. 7.

27
. Ralph Nader to AOH, 7 Apr. 1969, box 60, folder 12, AOHP.

28
. AOH to UH, 8 Sept. 1968, PP.

29
. AOH, “Why EVS?” n.d., box 60, folder 2, AOHP.

30
. AOH, “Introduction: Political Economics and Possibilism,”
Bias for Hope
, p. 27.

31
. Oscar Oszlak, interview, 4 June 2011.

32
. AOH, “The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding,”
World Politics
22:3 (March 1970), pp. 329–343, reprinted in
Bias for Hope
, pp. 342–360, quotation from p. 342.

33
. Notes on Payne and Womack, box 54, folder 9, AOHP; AOH, “Search for Paradigms.”

34
. Notes on Payne and Womack, box 54, folder 9, AOHP.

35
. AOH to UH, 20 June 1964, PP.

36
. Leon Festinger to AOH, 10 Apr. 1964, box 10, folder 16, AOHP; AOH, “Obstacles to Development: A Classification and a Quasi-Vanishing Act,”
Economic
Development and Cultural Change
13 (July 1965), pp. 385–393, reprinted in
Bias for Hope
, pp. 312–327.

37
. Philip Zimbardo to AOH, 17 Feb. 1971, box 10, folder 9, AOHP; Philip Zimbardo, interview, 11 Aug. 2009.

38
.
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
, p. 126.

39
. AOH, “Center Seminar,” December 1968, box 60, folder 5, AOHP.

40
. Stanford talk, January 1968, box 71, folder 3, AOHP.

41
.
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
, pp. 109–110.

42
. AOH to Ernest May, 11 Dec. 1968, box 11, folder 13, AOHP.

43
. AOH to UH, 22 July and 27 Aug. 1969, PP.

44
. AOH to UH, 27 Aug. 1969, PP.

45
.
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
, pp. 78–79.

46
. AOH, “Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Further Reflections and a Survey of Recent Contributions,”
Social Science Information
13 (1974), pp. 7–26, reprinted in
Essays in Trespassing
, pp. 213–235.

47
. AOH, “Exit and Voice: An Expanding Sphere of Influence,” in
Rival Views
, pp. 76–77.

48
. Kenneth Boulding to Max Hall, 15 May 1969, box 11, folder 8, AOHP.

49
. Ibid.

50
.
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
, pp. 76–79.

51
. Joseph Reid Jr., review of
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, Journal of Political Economy
(July–August 1973), pp. 1042–1045.

52
. Roger Hansen,
American Political Science Review
67 (September 1973), pp. 1110–1111.

53
. AOH to Ken Galbraith, 1 Oct. 1971, box 58, folder 24, AOHP.

54
. Gordon Tullock, review of
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
,
Journal of Finance
25:5 (December 1970), pp. 1194–1195.

55
. Mancur Olson to AOH, 20 Feb. 1973, and AOH to Olson, 5 Mar. 1973, box 11, folder 8, AOHP.

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