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Albert O. Hirschman

1915 - 2012

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Albert Otto Hirschman (born Otto Albert Hirschmann; April 7, 1915 – December 10, 2012) was an Gernan economist. He was the author of several influential books on 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). In World War II, he played a key role in rescuing refugees in occupied France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Albert O. Hirschman is the 81st most popular economist (up from 229th in 2024), the 902nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,432nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 81 out of 414Before him are Robert Solow, Murray Rothbard, Finn E. Kydland, Beatrice Webb, Tjalling Koopmans, and Oliver E. Williamson. After him are James M. Buchanan, Cornelius Castoriadis, Eugen Dühring, William Stanley Jevons, Irving Fisher, and Nikolai Kondratiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 39Before him are Curd Jürgens, Les Paul, Henry Taube, Geraldine of Albania, Paul Tibbets, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. After him are Helmut Schön, Thomas Huckle Weller, Modibo Keïta, Aziz Nesin, Brother Roger, and Rudolf Kirchschläger. Among people deceased in 2012, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 49Before him are Mike Wallace, Ravi Shankar, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Stephen Covey, Sven Hassel, and Jean Giraud. After him are Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Dick Clark, Rodney King, Rauf Denktaş, Renato Dulbecco, and Erland Josephson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 902 out of 7,253Before him are Wilhelm Kempff (1895), Hans Fallada (1893), Theodor Fontane (1819), Frederica of Baden (1781), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), and Hardy Krüger (1928). After him are Udo Kier (1944), Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441), Joachim Frank (1940), Nastassja Kinski (1961), Hartmut Michel (1948), and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876).

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 6Before him are Karl Marx (1818), Klaus Schwab (1938), Wassily Leontief (1906), Werner Sombart (1863), and Friedrich List (1789). After him are Eugen Dühring (1833), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), Lorenz von Stein (1815), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810).