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Date: April 14, 1997
Pioneering Social Scientist Hirschman to Speak at the Wilson School
Princeton, N.J. -- Albert O. Hirschman, professor emeritus of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, will give a lecture entitled "The Marshall Plan after 50 Years" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
A pioneering social scientist in the field of economic growth and social change in developing countries, Hirschman has received numerous honors over the last few years in recognition of his work. In 1995, the government of Colombia awarded Hirschman, an economic adviser and consultant to Colombia in the 1950s, the Order of San Carlos for his contributions to development economics. The Fritz-Thyssen Foundation of Cologne gave him its 1992 prize for the best German-language essay in the social sciences for "Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic" (Leviathan, September 1992; World Politics , January 1993).
Hirschman has also recently seen the translation or reissuance of a number of his works. His most recent work, A Propensity to Self-Subversion (Harvard, 1995), a collection of current essays, is already available in French and Spanish, as well as English, with Italian, Portuguese, German, and Japanese translations in progress. His classic work, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States (Harvard, 1970), was recently translated into Hungarian and Polish, joining the already long-established translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Swedish, and Japanese. A Japanese translation of The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Harvard, 1991) will soon be added to the growing list of translations of this work. Additionally, another classic book of Hirschman's, Development Projects Observed (Brookings Institution), first published in 1967, was reissued recently with a new preface. The book offers a first-hand study of eleven major development projects financed by the World Bank and explores the factors that account for their successes or failures.
Hirschman's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.