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