Schumpeter: Exit Albert Hirschman

摘要

Albert hirschman knew what he was talking about when he called one of his books "Essays in Trespassing". He was an extraordinarily peripatetic practitioner of the dismal science. Born in Berlin in 1915, he fled the Nazis in 1933, studied in Paris, London and Trieste, joined the anti-Mussolini resistance, fought on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, served in the French army until France's collapse in 1940, helped to organise an "underground railway" for refugees, emigrated to America, joined the army and was a translator at Nuremberg. He applied the cosmopolitan spirit that he had acquired in these years to everything he wrote.