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Remarks on the Awarding of the Albert O. Hirschman Prize to Charles Tilly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Joan W. Scott
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The Albert O. Hirschman Prize is the highest award of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). It recognizes academic excellence in international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication in the tradition of the German-born American economist for whom it is named.

It makes sense that the SSRC honors Hirschman in this way, for he was, as one biographical summary puts it, a “maverick economist.” The same biography says that Hirschman lived in “the grey zone between economic and political theory,” forging connections between them in unusual and extremely creative ways (homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/hirschm.htm). His work in development economics insisted on attention to local structures and indigenous resources, arguing against the application of formal models and standard criteria, the dominant approach of modernization theorists. Ever concerned about political democracy, he explored its relationship to economics.

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Special Section: The Tilly Fund for Social Science History and Hirschman Prize Remarks
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Social Science History , Volume 34 , Issue 3: In Honor of Charles Tilly , Fall 2010 , pp. 395 - 402
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2010 

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