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...Hirschman has spent his professional life as a physician and his spare time cultivating his interest in amateur radio. And at practically every stage, he has brought the two together...
It’s not an adventure novel. It’s what Jim C. Hirschman did—twice...
...boy’s father, seeing his son’s critical state, put out a call for help over ham radio. For nine hours, Hirschman used the radio to instruct the father how to provide medical assistance—aid that helped bring the boy back from the brink of death...
ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN, professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, long had faith in "economic development." In 1963, he wrote the highly influential Journeys Toward Progress. In an essay published last year, though, he epitomized contemporary disenchantment with the field, changing Toqueville's famous epigram from "A close tie and necessary relation exist between these two things: freedom and industry," to "A close tie and a necessary relation exist between these two things: torture and industry...
...which sided with him in many of the battles over his departed fellow-radicals, is dwindling, Galbraith will be making movies for BBC next year, and Leontief, disgusted with the department, has announced his intentions to "vote with my feet" and is leaving for New York University. Albert O. Hirschman went to Princeton last year. Only Kenneth Arrow remains. With these resignations, Harvard has lost much of the variety in its economic thought...