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