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...

The paper analyzes Albert Hirschman's theory of linkages in economic development in his writings, and the possible influence of his Colombia experience in the development of this idea. The theory is then applied to explain Colombia’s economic history in the nineteenth and twentieth century....