This book, written by a group of distinguished scholars and
practitioners, critically reappraises ideas about learning and
development advanced by Albert O. Hirschman in the 1950s and 1960s.
The essays--prepared for an MIT faculty seminar--show how these
innovative ideas bear on the theory, policy, and practice of
development in the 1990s. Hirschman, one of the great pioneers in
the field of economic development, is now professor emeritus at
Princeton. Paul Krugman, Lance Taylor, and Donald Schon address the
different approaches and assumptions of economic theorists in
relation to modelling, learning, and development policy. Emma
Rothschild, Lisa Peattie, and Bishwapryiya Sanyal examine some of
the changing attitudes toward economic progress. Elliot Marseille,
Judith Tendler, Sara Friedheim, Robert Picciotto, and Charles Sabel
draw lessons from efforts to innovate or modify institutions,
policies, programs, and projects. Lloyd Rodwin examines the
underlying themes that emerge, particularly those that touch on the
ideas of development as a process of social learning and on ways of
strengthening theory, policy, and practice in economics when it is
seen as both discipline and profession. In a postscript, Albert O.
Hirschman reflects on the evolution of his ideas, his cognitive
style, and his propensity for self-subversion. Two appendixes
detail the candid seminar discussions and Hirschman's musings in
response to particular chapters and questions raised by the
participants.
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