The years that Albert O. Hirschman lived in Colombia helped him shape the contents for his main publication: The strategy of economic development. The experience gained during his stay in Colombia, where he participated in government missions across the country, enabled him to design a research...

This essay analyzes three contributions of Albert Hirschman that are important to understand the Latin American industrialization process.The first are the features of this process vis-à-vis the “late industrialization” cases in the European continent analyzed by Alexander Gerschenkron. The...