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No. At least three things are going on. One is "imperial" economics, working mainly out of
Chicago. That is not Hirschman. Another other is a kind of theory that goes from Menger,
through Wieser's "social economics," Commons, Chester Barnard, to Herbert Simon, whence it
emerges as the New Institutionalism, now with the twist of Positive Political Economy (or
Positive Political Science). That is not Hirschman either. A third is economic pragmatism,
taking any idea that makes sense and goes together, turning it into a specific
explanation, and seeing where else it works. This is Hirschman (also an Austrian, but from
a very different tradition, F. List). Anyway, ask him.
 
J. Womack 
 
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