Yes, he certainly spelled it as he wanted it, Hirschman, though I have read he was named at birth not A.O. Hirschman, but Otto Albert Hirschmann.
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Hi
I taught history of economic thought during the last decades to students and repeated regularly that Schumpeter should not be spelled as SHUMPETER, let me suggest that Hirshman should be written as Hirschman..
I apologize for this remark..
best
Roger Backhouse <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
> Correct, he had around 50 economists under him, though I cannot
> confirm what the exact title of his group was. One of the noteworthy
> things about Mason in that role was his willingness to hire the best
> people, even if they were Jewish.
>
> Roger
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> On 7 Jun 2013, at 16:15, "Womack, John" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I've read somewhere that Mason was actually the director of the OSS's
>> economic department. I'm sure someone who's studied his career could
>> tell us.
>>
>> From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Teresa Tomas Rangil
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>> I think they were:
>>
>> Calvin Bryce Hoover
>> Moses Abramovitz
>> Edward Mason
>> Wassily Leontief
>> and Charles Kindleberger
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Teresa Tomás
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:21 AM, michael perelman
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> His biographer notes that 5 future presidents of the American
>> Economic Association were part of the OSS. Who were they?
>>
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