Albert Hirschman

At a ceremony and discussion hosted by the Institute on April 19, the Social Science Research Council presented the 2016 Albert O. Hirschman Prize, the organization's highest honor, to Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and professor...

Developing countries, led by Asia, have grown ­significantly more rapidly than mature economies over the last two decades, closing the gap between them. This experience is quite anomalous, since ­historically economic convergence has been the...

The program features talks by the recipients, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Co-Directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a panel discussion with Margaret Levi, Institute...

Albert O. Hirschman became a permanent Faculty member of the Institute in 1974, moving from Harvard’s economics department to join Clifford Geertz in the creation of the School of Social Science. By then, Hirschman was not just famous for his...

For the last twenty-one years, James D. Wolfensohn has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study. The longest serving Chairman in the Institute’s history thus far, he is pictured above at a Trustee dinner at...

Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography by Michele Alacevich was published in April 2021 by Columbia University Press:

"One of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly dramatic life...