...ahead, think of long-term consequences, be alert for new opportunities. As Albert Hirschman has said, "Development depends not so much on finding optimal...abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilized."" President Lawrence Cremin, of Columbia University's Teachers College, for example, through a series...

...production. What they lack is something equally important — a strategy that calls forth and enlists "for development purposes resources and abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilized."8 The same is true for increasing pains in the face of import barriers. Although many countries...

...interrelations. Unlike the growth, two-gap, and "booming sector" theories surveyed below, it stressed that "development depends not so much on finding optimal...abilities that are hidden, scattered or badly utilized" (Hirschman 1958, p. 5Ì. According to this theory, in a given social, political, and economic context...

...only be efficiently allocated to various activities for best results. Hirschman contended instead that 'development depends not so much on finding optimal...abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilized' (1958, p. 5). This view led to a search for various inducing and mobilizing mechanisms. The resulting...

...mechanisms" or "pacing devices" to bring forth their potential. In my most general formulation I wrote: "development depends not so much on finding optimal...abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilized" (Strategy, p. 5). Hirschman exhibits an admirable sensitivity to the question inevitably posed by his...

...their own functions. Development could then be regarded as a virtuous circle. Hirschman concludes that 'development depends not so much on finding optimal...abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilized' (Hirschman 1958, 5). He thus sets out to look for the 'inducement mechanisms' that will do this. 'If...

...Instead, he put forward models, as he wrote in The Strategy of Economic Development, that depended "not so much on finding optimal combinations for given...and abilities that are hidden, scattered or badly utilized."18 The role of institutions is becoming, at long last, a central concern of development economics,...

...airplane off the ground" (Rosenstein-Rodan, 1984, 207ff.). „In my most general formulation I wrote: development depends not so much on finding optimal...abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilized" (Hirschman, 1984,94). „Entwicklung wurde bei ihnen (den Keynesianern, Anm. des Autors) gleichgesetzt...

...Albert Hirschman. In his The Strategy of Economic Development (1958), Hirschman argued that economic 'development depends not so much on finding optimal...abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilized' (1958: 5). In contrast to balanced growth, Hirschman envisaged development as a chain of disequilibria:...

...economic development, as Albert Hirschman said a long time ago in his critique of Big Push models, "depends not so much on finding optimal combinations...and abilities that are hidden, scattered, or badly utilised."11'1 If we agree with this view of development, the problem facing a state promoting development...