Albert O. Hirschman - Quiz
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  • 1. Who suggested that Albert O. Hirschman become a visiting professor at Yale University in 1956?
A) Ragnar Nurske
B) Norman S. Buchanan
C) Thomas Schelling
D) Charles Lindblom
  • 2. Which foundation provided funding for Hirschman to extend his Yale professorship?
A) Twentieth Century Fund
B) Social Science Research Council
C) Inter-American Foundation
D) Rockefeller Foundation
  • 3. Which university hired Hirschman to replace the recently deceased Ragnar Nurske?
A) Harvard University
B) Princeton University
C) Yale University
D) Columbia University
  • 4. Which book did Hirschman complete in 1962 in partnership with Charles Lindblom?
A) Development Projects Observed
B) Journeys Towards Progress
C) The Strategy of Economic Development
D) The Rhetoric of Reaction
  • 5. Which principle was introduced in Hirschman's 1967 book, Development Projects Observed?
A) Hirschman cycle
B) Reactionary rhetoric
C) Legitimation crisis
D) Hiding hand
  • 6. Where did Hirschman spend the academic year 1968–1969 at the request of Gabriel Almond?
A) Princeton University
B) Yale University
C) Stanford University
D) Harvard University
  • 7. In what year did Hirschman join the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in a permanent position?
A) 1985
B) 1964
C) 1974
D) 1972
  • 8. What primary duty did Hirschman hope to escape by accepting a permanent position at the IAS?
A) Editing
B) Fieldwork
C) Teaching
D) Administration
  • 9. Which anthology was a culminating achievement of the research project on authoritarianism in Latin America?
A) Latin American Issues
B) The New Authoritarianism in Latin America
C) Journeys Towards Progress
D) Getting Ahead Collectively
  • 10. What 1977 book by Hirschman explored the ideological justifications for capitalism?
A) The Rhetoric of Reaction
B) Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
C) Shifting Involvements
D) The Passions and the Interests
  • 11. Which concept did Hirschman introduce in his 1982 book, Shifting Involvements?
A) Hiding hand
B) Hirschman cycle
C) The rhetoric of reaction
D) Legitimation crisis
  • 12. How did Hirschman describe his 1984 book, Getting Ahead Collectively?
A) A collection of economic data
B) A scholarly treatise
C) A political manifesto
D) A reasoned travelogue
  • 13. Who was the first game theorist to hold the Albert O. Hirschman Chair in Economics at the IAS?
A) John Rawls
B) Eric Maskin
C) Amartya Sen
D) Clifford Geertz
  • 14. What activity did Hirschman take up after a 1996 fall left him unable to write or speak?
A) Politics
B) Teaching
C) Journaling
D) Painting
  • 15. At what age did Albert O. Hirschman die?
A) 85
B) 92
C) 97
D) 90
  • 16. Which colleague shared an office with Hirschman at Berkeley?
A) Lauchlin Currie
B) John Bell Condliffe
C) Alexander Gerschenkron
D) Richard M. Bissell Jr.
  • 17. What was the name of the woman Hirschman married in 1941?
A) Katia Hirschman
B) Maria Elena
C) Anna Gerschenkron
D) Sarah Chapiro
  • 18. In which organization did Hirschman serve starting in the autumn of 1943?
A) Department of Commerce
B) Federal Reserve Board
C) World Bank
D) Office of Strategic Services
  • 19. What role did Hirschman perform while stationed in Algiers for seven months?
A) Logistics officer
B) French instructor
C) Economic advisor
D) Intelligence analyst
  • 20. Which German general did Hirschman interpret for at a war crimes trial?
A) Heinz Guderian
B) Anton Dostler
C) Erwin Rommel
D) Friedrich Paulus
  • 21. What was the name of Hirschman's first daughter, born in October 1944?
A) Sarah
B) Maria
C) Elena
D) Katia
  • 22. Why did Hirschman struggle to find government intelligence work after the war?
A) Lack of experience
B) Health reasons
C) FBI security concerns
D) Refusal to relocate
  • 23. Which organization did Hirschman join to work on the Marshall Plan?
A) United Nations
B) Economic Cooperation Administration
C) International Monetary Fund
D) World Trade Organization
  • 24. Why was Hirschman refused a position in Paris in 1951?
A) Family medical issues
B) Budget cuts
C) Lack of language skills
D) FBI security review
  • 25. Which country did Hirschman aid in economic development starting in 1952?
A) Brazil
B) Argentina
C) Chile
D) Colombia
  • 26. What was the name of the Colombian civil war period during Hirschman's tenure?
A) The Thousand Days' War
B) The Great Instability
C) The Colombian Conflict
D) La Violencia
  • 27. Who did Hirschman work with as a private economic consultant in Bogotá after 1954?
A) George Kalmanoff
B) Lauchlin Currie
C) Jacques Torfs
D) Max Millikan
  • 28. At which institution was the 1954 development economics conference held?
A) Harvard University
B) Yale University
C) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D) University of California, Berkeley
  • 29. Who invited Hirschman to present at the 1954 MIT conference?
A) Richard M. Bissell Jr.
B) Max Millikan
C) John Bell Condliffe
D) Alexander Gerschenkron
  • 30. What was Albert O. Hirschman's original birth name?
A) Otto Carl Hirschman
B) Otto Albert Hirschmann
C) Albert Marcuse Hirschmann
D) Albert Otto Hirschmann
  • 31. In what year was Albert O. Hirschman born?
A) 1920
B) 1905
C) 1915
D) 1912
  • 32. What was the name of Hirschman's father?
A) Otto Bauer
B) Eugenio Colorni
C) Philip Barrett Whale
D) Carl Hirschmann
  • 33. What religion was Hirschman baptized into as a child?
A) Lutheran
B) Jewish
C) Calvinist
D) Catholic
  • 34. Which youth movement did Hirschman join in 1931?
A) Workers Socialist Youth
B) Young Communists League
C) Socialist Students Association
D) Hitler Youth
  • 35. Which philosopher strongly influenced Hirschman during his youth?
A) Hegel
B) Marx
C) Kant
D) Nietzsche
  • 36. Where did Hirschman emigrate after Hitler's rise to chancellorship?
A) London
B) Trieste
C) Paris
D) United States
  • 37. Who was the Italian anti-fascist activist that married Hirschman's sister Ursula?
A) Eugenio Colorni
B) Pierpaolo Luzzatto-Fegiz
C) Raphael Abramovitch Rein
D) Robert Marjolin
  • 38. Which economist at the London School of Economics influenced Hirschman?
A) Albert Demangeon
B) John Bell Condliffe
C) Otto Bauer
D) Piero Sraffa
  • 39. Hirschman fought in the Spanish Civil War under the banner of which organization?
A) POUM
B) International Brigades
C) The French Resistance
D) The Red Army
  • 40. Who did Hirschman work with to help intellectuals escape occupied France?
A) Robert Marjolin
B) Varian Fry
C) John Bell Condliffe
D) Charles Rist
  • 41. Which artist was rescued by Hirschman and the Emergency Rescue Committee?
A) Henri Matisse
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Marc Chagall
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 42. In what year did Hirschman arrive in the United States?
A) 1941
B) 1940
C) 1939
D) 1942
  • 43. What was the subject of Hirschman's doctoral thesis?
A) Kondratiev cycles
B) Italian demographic statistics
C) The franc Poincaré
D) The philosophy of the family
  • 44. What 2023 Netflix series features a fictionalized version of Hirschman?
A) Occupied
B) The Resistance
C) Europe at War
D) Transatlantic
  • 45. What was the original working title of Hirschman's 1958 book The Strategy of Economic Development?
A) Unbalanced Growth
B) The Passions and the Interests
C) Development Projects Observed
D) The Big Push
  • 46. Hirschman argued that developing countries were primarily short of what?
A) Decision-making skills
B) Natural resources
C) Financial capital
D) Agricultural land
  • 47. Which economist did Hirschman argue against regarding 'Big Push' approaches to development?
A) Richard Posner
B) Jeremy Adelman
C) Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
D) Irving Kristol
  • 48. In which book did Hirschman develop the 'hiding hand' principle?
A) Development Projects Observed
B) The Passions and the Interests
C) Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
D) The Rhetoric of Reaction
  • 49. Which of the following is one of the three responses to decline in firms or polities identified in Exit, Voice, and Loyalty?
A) Neglect
B) Voice
C) Competition
D) Resistance
  • 50. In The Rhetoric of Reaction, what is one of the three types of arguments Hirschman claims conservatives make?
A) Injustice
B) Perversity
C) Innovation
D) Equality
  • 51. According to The Passions and the Interests, which thinker promoted capitalism as a way to repress destructive passions?
A) Adam Smith
B) José Carlos Mariátegui
C) Orris C. Herfindahl
D) Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
  • 52. What is the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index used to measure?
A) Economic growth
B) Social change
C) Political revolution
D) Market concentration
  • 53. In what year was 'Exit, Voice, and Loyalty' published?
A) 1977
B) 1967
C) 1970
D) 1982
  • 54. Which book was co-authored with photographs by Mitchell Denburg?
A) Journeys toward Progress
B) Getting ahead collectively
C) Latin American issues
D) Colombia; highlights of a developing economy
  • 55. Who edited 'The Essential Hirschman' published in 2013?
A) Mitchell Denburg
B) Harvard University Press
C) Jeremy Adelman
D) Twentieth Century Fund
  • 56. Which book published in 1995 deals with the propensity to self-subversion?
A) Crossing boundaries
B) Essays in trespassing
C) Rival views of market society
D) A propensity to self-subversion
  • 57. Which book was published by Westview Press in 1985?
A) The Strategy of Economic Development
B) Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
C) National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade
D) A bias for hope
  • 58. What year did Hirschman publish 'Shifting involvements: private interest and public action'?
A) 1991
B) 1982
C) 1977
D) 1986
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