Books
Albert O. Hirschman, The Postwar Economic Order. National Reconstruction and International Cooperation, edited by Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022
· Translation: Simplified Chinese (CITIC Press, Beijing, China, forthcoming 2024)
Albert O. Hirschman. An Intellectual Biography, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021
· Translations: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, Forthcoming 2024), Russian (Delo, forthcoming 2024), Arabic (Athra, forthcoming 2024)
The Political Economy of Development Economics. A Historical Perspective, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018 (edited with Mauro Boianovsky)
A Short History of Inequality, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017 (with Anna Soci)
· Translations: Italian (Laterza, 2019), Chinese (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2019)
The Political Economy of the World Bank. The Early Years, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009
· Translations: Russian (Ves Mir), French (Editions ESKA), Arabic (Al-Ahram) and Spanish (Mayol Ediciones); (Italian ed. Bruno Mondadori 2007)
Economia politica. Un’introduzione storica, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009 (with Daniela Parisi)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Albert O. Hirschman, Europe, and the Postwar Economic Order, 1946-1952”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 55, n. 1 (2023), pp. 39-75 (with Pier Francesco Asso), https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10213625
“Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and the Birth of Development Economics”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 53, n. 5 (2021), pp. 857–892
“Sviluppo e istruzione. Ocse e Sud Europa nel Progetto regionale mediterraneo”, Contemporanea, 2/2019, pp. 225-256 (with Mattia Granata)
“Why has income inequality been neglected in economics and public policy?”, in Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, Inequality. Trends, Causes, Consequences, Relevant Policies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 323-365 (with Robert Wade)
“Planning Peace. The European Roots of the Postwar Global Development Challenge”, Past & Present, Vol. 239, Issue 1, May 2018, pp. 219-264
“The Birth of Development Economics: Theories and Institutions,” History of Political Economy, Vol. 50, n. 5 (2018), pp. 114-132
“Writing the History of Development Economics,” History of Political Economy, Vol. 50, n. 5 (2018), pp. 1 14 (with Mauro Boianovsky)
“Theory and Practice in Development Economics,” History of Political Economy, Vol. 49, n. 5 (2017), pp. 264-291
“Devising Routines for Project Appraisal at the World Bank, 1945-1975”, in Philip Scranton and Daniel Raff (eds.), The Emergence of Routines, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 288-313
“Albert Hirschman and the Rise and Decline of Development Economics”, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 34, n. 2 (2016), pp. 13-39
“Not a Knowledge Bank: The Divided History of Development Economics and Development Organizations,” Social Science History, Vol. 40, n. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 627-656
“Harvard Meets the Crisis: U.S. Fiscal Policy in the 1930s and the Political Economy of Lauchlin B. Currie, Jacob Viner, John H. Williams and Harry D. White,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 37, n. 3, 2015, pp. 387-410 (with Pier Francesco Asso and Sebastiano Nerozzi)
“Introduction”, in Michele Alacevich, Jeremy Adelman, Victoria de Grazia, Ira Katznelson and Nadia Urbinati, “Albert Hirschman and the Social Sciences: A Memorial Roundtable”, Humanity, Vol. 6, n. 2 (2015), pp. 265-267
“Hirschman’s Development Journey and the Rise and Fall of Development Economics”, in Michele Alacevich, Jeremy Adelman, Victoria de Grazia, Ira Katznelson and Nadia Urbinati, “Albert Hirschman and the Social Sciences: A Memorial Roundtable”, Humanity, Vol. 6, n. 2 (2015), pp. 281-286
“The Shaping of Public Economic Discourse in America: the 1947 Meat Shortage and Franco Modigliani’s Meat Plan”, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 33, n. 1, 2015, pp. 3-42 (with Pier Francesco Asso and Sebastiano Nerozzi)
“Visualizing Uncertainties, or how Albert Hirschman and the World Bank disagreed on project appraisal and development approaches,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 36, n. 2 (June), 2014, pp. 137-168
“Postwar development in the Italian Mezzogiorno. Analyses and Policies,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 18, n. 1, 2013, pp. 90-112 [augmented version of “La svolta del Sud e la modernizzazione a metà,” in Cosimo Perrotta and Claudia Sunna (eds.), L’arretratezza del Mezzogiorno. Le idee, l’economia, la storia, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2012, pp. 170-194]
“The World Bank and the politics of productivity: The debate on economic growth, poverty, and living standards in the 1950s,” Journal of Global History, Vol. 6, n. 1, 2011, pp. 53-74 [translated in Italian as “La Banca Mondiale e la politica della produttività. Il dibattito su crescita economica, povertà e tenore di vita negli anni cinquanta,” in Mauro Campus (ed.), Nuove ricerche di storia internazionale, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2012, pp. 33-62]
“Early Development Economics Debates Revisited,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 33, n. 2 (June), 2011, pp. 145-171
“The World Bank’s Early Reflections on Development: A Development Institution or a Bank?” Review of Political Economy, Vol. 21, n. 3 (July 2009), pp. 227-244 [translated in Italian as “Agenzia per lo sviluppo o banca? Visione e strategia della Banca Mondiale negli anni cinquanta e sessanta,” QA – Rivista dell’Associazione Manlio Rossi-Doria, 1-2010, pp. 15-35]
“Money Doctoring After World War II: Arthur I. Bloomfield and the Federal Reserve Missions to South Korea,” History of Political Economy, Vol. 41, n. 2, (Spring 2009), pp. 249-270 (with Pier Francesco Asso)
“L’economia dello sviluppo come istituzione: alcune riflessioni a partire dal dibattito tra Albert Hirschman e Lauchlin Currie,” Rivista di Storia Economica, vol. XXIII, n. 1, 2007, pp. 81-110
“The Changing Meaning of Development: SID in the Early Decades,” Development, vol. 50, Special Issue, 2007, pp. 59-65
“Post-war Economic Policies for Development: Lauchlin B. Currie, and The World Bank in Colombia,” Storia del pensiero economico, Vol. II, n. 1 (2005), pp. 73-92
“Tra conservazione e innovazione: la Banca Mondiale e la modificazione del concetto di sviluppo, 1946–1981,” Istituzioni e sviluppo economico, vol. 2, n. 2, 2004, pp. 93-116
Book Chapters and Other Publications
“Paul Rosenstein-Rodan (1902-1985)”, in Robert Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. xxxx FORTHCOMING
“Edward S. Mason (1899-1992)”, in Robert Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. xxxx FORTHCOMING
“History and Histories of the World Bank”, in Antje Vetterlein and Tobias Schmidtke (eds.), The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2023, pp. xxxx FORTHCOMING (with Mirek Tobiáš Hošman)
“Albert O. Hirschman at the Federal Reserve, 1946–1952” in Albert O. Hirschman, The Postwar Economic Order. National Reconstruction and International Cooperation, edited by Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022, pp. 1-44
“Inequality”, in Iris Borowy, Corinne A. Pernet, and Corinna Unger (eds.), Routledge Handbook on the History of Development, London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 105-119
“Possibilismo, storia e cambiamento sociale nell’analisi di Alberto Tulumello”, in Simone Tulumello (ed.), Verso una geografia del cambiamento, dal Mezzogiorno al Mediterraneo. Saggi per un dialogo con Alberto Tulumello, Milano: Mimesis, 2022, pp. 81-89
“Disuguaglianza, Democrazia e Globalizzazione”, Menabò di Etica ed Economia, n. 168/2022, 14 marzo 2022 (with Anna Soci)
“In praise of possibility”, Aeon, 3 August 2021
“Una crescente disuguaglianza e le riforme per combatterla”, Paradoxa, Vol. 15, n. 2, 2021, pp. 163-176
“L'eredità economica per Biden”, Il Mulino online, 20 gennaio 2021
“Il problema del monopolio visto dall’Italia”, Pensiero Economico Italiano, Vol. 28, n. 2, 2020, pp. 187-189
“Trickle-up Economics. Trump, Growth, and Inequality”, in Mario Del Pero and Paolo Magri, Four Years of Trump. The US and the World, Milan: ISPI, 2020, pp. 48-68
“The Making of a Development Economist: Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and the Birth of Development Economics”, GEGI Working Paper 29, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, June 2019
“Development and education: the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation and postwar development discourse”, Past & Present blog, October 29, 2018
“Albert Hirschman’s view in Development Projects Observed”, in Luca Meldolesi and Nicoletta Stame (eds.), For a Better World, Colorni-Hirschman Institute, 2018, pp. 75-82
“Varieties of Economic Nationalism: Latin America and Europe”, in Alexandre Mendes Cunha and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (eds.), The Political Economy of Latin American Independence, Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, pp. 253-268
“Albert Hirschman”, in Jayati Ghosh, Rainer Kattel & Erik Reinert (eds.), Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2016, pp. 456-474
“Il Piano Marshall, l’Italia e il Mezzogiorno”, in La Cassa per il Mezzogiorno. Dalla salvaguardia dell’Archivio alla promozione della ricerca, Roma: Archivi di Stato, 2015, pp. 91-101
“Albert Hirschman Observed”, afterword to Albert O. Hirschman, Development Projects Observed, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2015 [1967], pp. 175-190
“The United States and the International Economic Organizations, 1990s-present”, in Robert E. Wright and Thomas W. Zeiler (eds.), The Guide to U.S. Economic Policy, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2014, pp. 405-419
“Visualizing Uncertainties, or how Albert Hirschman and the World Bank disagreed on project appraisal and development approaches,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6260, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, (November 2012)
“La svolta del Sud e la modernizzazione a metà,” in Cosimo Perrotta and Claudia Sunna (eds.), L’arretratezza del Mezzogiorno. Le idee, l’economia, la storia, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2012, pp. 170-194
“Presentazione,” in Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast, Violenza e ordini sociali. Un’interpretazione della storia, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012, pp. 7-16
“Shaping Monetary Constitutions for Developing Countries: Some Archival Evidence on the Bloomfield Missions to South Korea (1949-1950),” in Robert Leeson (ed.), American Power and Policy, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009, pp. 243-266 (with Pier Francesco Asso)
“Economic Policies and Urban Development in Latin America,” in Richard Arena, Sheila Dow and Matthias Klaes (eds.), Open Economics, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, pp. 190-208 (with Andrea Costa)
“The World Bank and Development: The Early Years,” EABH Bulletin, (December 2008), pp. 2-8
“The World Bank Early Reflections on Development: A Development Institution or a Bank?” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4670, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, (August 2008)
“Early Development Economics Debates Revisited,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4441, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, (December 2007)
“Emerging Trends: Fifty Seminal Articles from the International Development Review and Development – 1959-2006,” Development, vol. 50, Special Issue, 2007, pp. 131-132 (with Wendy Harcourt)
“Lo stile di un macroeconomista: metodo e retorica degli editoriali di Franco Modigliani,” in Franco Modigliani, L’impegno civile di un economista. Scritti editi e inediti sull’economia e la società italiana, a cura di Pier Francesco Asso, Siena: Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena e Protagon Editori, 2007
“L’utilizzo delle fonti archivistiche della Banca Mondiale: una nota,” Storia del pensiero economico, Vol. III, n. 1 (2006), pp. 224-228
“Heilbroner: economista della storia,” in Robert L. Heilbroner, Il capitalismo del XXI secolo, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2006
“L’esperienza riformista del New Deal all’interno della Banca Mondiale,” ItalianiEuropei, vol. III, n. 1 (2006), pp. 241-248
Book Reviews
Review of Gregory P. Williams, Contesting the Global Order. The Radical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2020, Ricerche di Storia Politica, FORTHCOMING
Review of Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022, EH.Net, April 2023, https://eh.net/book_reviews/a-brief-history-of-equality/
“Jan Tinbergen’s Fallacy: Economic Expertise as A-Political Endeavour”, Review article of Erwin Dekker, Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 15, Issue 2, Winter 2022, pp. 76-84, https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v15i2.711
Review of Mats Lundahl, The dynamics of poverty. Circular, cumulative causation, value judgments, institutions and social engineering in the world of Gunnar Myrdal, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2022, pp. 774-776, DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2022.2074430
Review of Alexandre M. Cunha and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, eds., Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 44, No. 3 (September), 2022, pp. 480-482
Review of Fabrizio Barca and Patrizia Luongo (eds.), Un futuro più giusto. Rabbia, conflitto e giustizia sociale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020, and Fabrizio Barca and Enrico Giovannini, Quel mondo diverso. Da immaginare, per cui battersi, che si può realizzare, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2020, Rivista Economica del Mezzogiorno, 2-3/2021, pp. 560-566
Review of Alan Bollard, Economists at War. How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 43, n. 4 (2021), pp. 643-645
Review of Mario Garcia-Molina and Hans-Michael Trautwein (eds.), Peripheral Visions of Economic Development. New Frontiers in Development Economics and the History of Economic Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 2016, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 26, n. 1 (2019), pp. 198-200
Review of Richard P. F. Holt (ed.), The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2017, History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 26, n. 2 (2018), pp. 175-177
Review of Francesco Dandolo, Il Mezzogiorno fra divari e cooperazione internazionale. «Informazioni SVIMEZ» e la cultura del nuovo meridionalismo (1948-1960), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017; and Problemi dei paesi economicamente sottosviluppati. Supplementi ad “Informazioni SVIMEZ” editi negli anni 1952-1964, Organizzazione bibliografica ragionata di Filippo Di Iorio, Quaderno SVIMEZ n. 52, Roma, giugno 2017, Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, 4/2017, pp. 1147-1153
Review of Giovanni Farese and Paolo Savona, Il banchiere del mondo. Eugene Robert Black e l’ascesa della cultura dello sviluppo in Italia, Rubbettino: Soveria Mannelli, 2014, Il mestiere di storico, 1/2015, p. 159
Review of Shahrukh Rafi Khan, A History of Development Economics Thought: Challenges and Counter-challenges, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014, History of Economic Thought & Policy, 1/2015, pp. 120-122
Roundtable review of Nick Cullather, The Hungry World. America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010, Il mestiere di storico, 2/2012, pp. 27-30
Review of Michael E. Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011, Technology and Culture, 2012
Review of David A. Phillips, Reforming the World Bank. Twenty Years of Trial – and Error, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, Enterprise & Society, 2011
Review of Bruce Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, Storia del Pensiero Economico, Vol. VI, n. 1 (2009), pp. 188-191
Review of B. Dan Wood, The Politics of Economic Leadership: The Causes and Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, Storia del Pensiero Economico, Vol. VI, n. 2 (2009), pp. 180-182
“Teoria e pratica dell’economia dello sviluppo: una biografia di W.A. Lewis,” Review article of Robert Tignor, W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, Storia del Pensiero Economico, Vol. IV, n. 2 (2007), pp. 187-193
Translations (from English to Italian)
Branko Milanovic, The Haves and the Have-Nots, New York: Basic Books, 2010 [Branko Milanovic, Chi ha e chi non ha. Storie di disuguaglianze, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012]
Douglass C. North, John J. Wallis and Barry R. Weingast, Violence and Social Order, Cambridge University Press, 2010 [Douglass C. North, John J. Wallis and Barry R. Weingast, Violenza e ordini sociali, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012 (revision – publication’s curator)]
Branko Milanovic, Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005 [Branko Milanovic, Mondi divisi, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2007]
Amartya Sen, “Identity, Poverty, and Human Rights,” speech delivered in Rome, Italy, in 2006 [Amartya K. Sen, “Identità, povertà e diritti umani”, in Amartya K. Sen, Piero Fassino, Sebastiano Maffettone, Giustizia Globale, Milano: Il Saggiatore, 2006]
Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960 [Thomas Schelling, La strategia del conflitto, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2006 (publication’s curator)]
Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 [Giovanni Arrighi e Beverly Silver, Caos e governo del Mondo, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2003]
Larry Allen, The Global Financial System, 1750-2000, London: Reaktion Books, 2001 [Larry Allen, Il sistema finanziario globale. Dal 1750 a oggi, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2002 (revision)]
Other Writings and Long Blog Entries
“Hirschman, economista dissenziente che amava l’imprevisto della Storia”, Il Sole 24 Ore, Giovedì 29 Dicembre 2022– N.357, p. 12
“La scuola vista da . . .”, in Fuori dalla media. Testimonianze da una civica particolare: la Civica Media Alessandro Manzoni, Milano: Tralerighe, 2021, pp. 242-247
“Proving Hamlet Wrong: Doubt and Action in the Life of Albert Hirschman”, Columbia University Press Blog, January 5, 2021, https://www.cupblog.org/2021/01/05/proving-hamlet-wrong-doubt-and-action-in-the-life-of-albert-hirschman-by-michele-alacevich/
“Development and education: the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation and postwar development discourse”, Past & Present Blog, October 29, 2018 https://pastandpresent.org.uk/development-and-education-the-organisation-for-european-economic-co-operation-and-postwar-development-discourse-2/
Podcasts and videoconferences
“Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise” Book Panel with Peter J. Boettke, Erwin Dekker and Sandra Peart, Hayek Program Podcast, August 26, 2022, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jan-tinbergen-1903-1994-and-the-rise-of/id1069881407?i=1000577455410
“Albert O. Hirschman. An Intellectual Biography”, AISPE Channel, March 24, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_EGnBj5j6I
“Albert O. Hirschman. An Intellectual Biography”, New Books Network, February 9, 2022, https://newbooksnetwork.com/michele-alacevich-albert-o-hirschman-an-intellectual-biography-columbia-up-2021
“Albert O. Hirschman. An Intellectual Biography”, Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast, Episode Forty-Five, June 15, 2021, https://hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-forty-five
“Diseguaglianza in America: Trump e gli effetti del Tax Cuts Act”, Rethinking Economics Bologna, December 8, 2020, https://www.facebook.com/rethinkingeconomicsbologna/videos/diseguaglianza-in-america-trump-e-gli-effetti-del-tax-cuts-act-con-il-prof-miche/384429356158650/
“Breve storia della Disuguaglianza”, Sottosopra, October 20, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjta5e-O0Qw
“Why study the history of economic development?”, ReDe (Rethinking development), September 25, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdI5fGhPexA
“#GlobalHealthNow. Salute e diritti umani nell'epoca del neoliberismo globale”, con Roberto De Vogli, Festival della salute globale, July 15, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUULKvme-9w
