Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman

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.

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