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Professor Albert O. Hirschman
School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 734-8252
Fax: (609) 951-4457
aoh@ias.edu
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Albert O.
Hirschman has continued to work on
the political economy of development. He has contributed to the discussion
around the economic reasons for the emergence of authoritarian regimes in
Latin America in the sixties and seventies and for the return to
democratic forms of governance in the eighties. He has extended
applications of the exit-voice dichotomy to various organizations of the
social world, from the family to the fall of the German Democratic
Republic. He has traced the contrast between "interests" and
"passions" in the history of social thought from Machiavelli to
Tocqueville. He has also written on the principal forms taken by
"reactionary" and "progressive" rhetoric over the past
two centuries, demonstrating the powerful attraction exercised by certain
invariant arguments. Lately he has engaged in what he calls
"self-subversion" - systematically revisiting his principal
theorems and models and modifying, qualifying, and complicating them in
various respects.
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