Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) : la Résistance à tout prix

Abstract

Albert O. Hirschman was an inventive and erudite historian of economic thought who left us important contributions to history of economic thought, whose characteristics, retrospectively, is to have accompanied—and even sometimes fostered—several historiographical mutations of our discipline over the last forty years. The article puts in perspective the main contributions of Hirschman in this area.

Keywords

• history of economic thought
• methodology
• rationality
• passions
• interests
• expertise