Full Description
This book contains a selection of chapters coming from For a Better World (First Conference on Hirschman Legacy - Boston 2017), A Bias for Hope (Second Conference on Hirschman Legacy- Washington-WB 2018), and A Passion for the Possible (Third Conference on Hirschman Legacy - Berlin 2019). The three Conferences have been organized by A Colorni-Hirschman International Institute, Rome, Italy.
Animated by a large group of well-known scholars and operatives coming from United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East, these Conferences provided a large spectrum of contributions on Albert Hirschman life and work, and on the wide range influence that this protagonist of the cultural scene of our time has had on managers and entrepreneurs and on public and private development around the world - from the local level, up to the UN-WB one.
Sifting through the material of these Conferences, and repositioning the chosen contributions according to a general line of reasoning, however tenuous, the present collection shows the flexibility and applicability of Hirschman's methods, concepts and proposals to the most diverse situations; and vice versa - that is it shows how those variegated realities often lend themselves to be interpreted à la Hirschman.
Contents
A note - Three points on possibilism: Luca Meldolesi - My interview with Albert Hirschman: Marta Petrusewicz - Unexpected linkages and social energy in collective action: Elizabeth Jelin - On teaching Hirschman: Philipp Lepenies - Uncertainty as an opportunity: Osvaldo Néstor Feinstein - Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the history of economics: Richard Adelstein - Hirschman's critique of the economics profession: Ilene Grabel - On the applicability of Albert Hirschman's Shifting Involvements for the historian: Charles S. Maier - Marxism, imperialism, and the future of undeveloped societies: From expected to unintended consequences: Baruch Knei-Paz - The context of Otto Albert's politicization: Christian Fleck - Hirschman, Geertz, and my experience: Robert Darnton - Hirschman's legacy in dealing with the private sector: Vincenzo Marino - Possibilism as a cornerstone of consultancy: Francesco Messina - Providing innovation to the South: Francesco Cicione and Gennaro di Cello - Hirschman's theory in business management practice: Renato Bruno - "Regional Entrepreneurial Transformation Process" in Lusatia—a Hirschmanian approach to socio-economic transformations?: Hans Rüdiger Lange - The Abraham Path: Economic development across fragile communities in the West Bank: Marinella Ariano - Reflections of a sanitarian: Laura Orlando - Sustaining success? Voice and accountable discretion in Bangalore's Water for the Poor Program, 10 years later: Meenu Tewari - Capacity-building for development projects: Efficiency plus generosity: Paolo Di Nola - Evaluation for local development: Laura Tagle - Social learning and the World Bank: Tom Kenyon and Alberto Criscuolo - Implementation (and reform) really is "a long voyage of discovery": Michael Woolcock - Intersecting exit, voice, and loyalty: Feedback from Nigeria: Lesley Amede Obiora - Inequality and the inventiveness of history: Albert Hirschman's "tunnel effect" in South Africa: Brian Levy - How the rhetoric of reaction justifies the legalized exploitation of migrant care labor: Marianne Egger De Campo - Reactionary and progressive rhetoric in post-communist transformation: A note on translating Hirschman's ideas into a different context: Marek Skovajsa - Index of Names
