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