The Real Development was the Friends We Made Along the Way
Jan 20, 2021This is a blog about development economics, and there’s surely no better way to start than by writing about Albert Hirschman—one of the pioneers of the field, and quite possibly the most interesting person to ever become an economist. Originally I set out to write a review of Albert Hirschman’s 1958 Strategy of Economic Development, but the tale grew in the telling—into a biography of Hirschman’s fascinating early life, then a broader history of development economics, and at last into a reflection on the current state of the field.