Albert O. Hirschman

Albert Otto Hirschman
Albert Otto Hirschman
	Hirschman in 1945
Born	April 7, 1915; Berlin, German Empire
Died	December 10, 2012 (aged 97); Ewing Township, New Jersey, United States
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Berlin (transferred, 1933); HEC Paris (diploma, 1935); London School of Economics (fellowship, 1935–1936); University of Trieste (laurea, 1938); University of California, Berkeley (fellowship, 1941–1942);
Academic work
Discipline	Political economy
Institutions	Federal Reserve Board (1946–1951); World Bank (1952–1954); Yale University (1956–1958); Columbia University (1958–1964); Harvard University (1964–1974); Institute for Advanced Study (1974–2012);
Notable ideas	Strategy of unbalanced growth; Hiding hand principle; Exit, voice, and loyalty model; Hirschman cycle;
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc;

Albert Otto Hirschman (born Otto Albert Hirschmann; April 7, 1915 – December 10, 2012) was an American economist. He was the author of several influential books on development economics, political economy, and political ideology including The Strategy of Economic Development (1958), Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970), The Passions and the Interests (1977), and The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991). He was a founding figure in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and an influential economic advisor to Latin American leaders. In World War II, he played a key role in rescuing refugees from occupied France with the Emergency Rescue Committee.