Volume 33, Number 20 · December 18, 1986
Out of Phase Again
By Albert O. Hirschman
More than twenty years ago I published a short article on Inter-American relations with the title 'Out of Phase.'[1] Intellectual fashions in thinking on development, I tried to show, tended to go through changes in the United States that were matched, but in the opposite direction, by shifts occurring at about the same time in the mood of Latin America, the result being an 'orgy of misinterpretation and misunderstanding.' I was writing about the concrete experience of the five-year period that lay just behind us then, without any attempt to argue that this mismatch has a necessary or permanent character. But looking at the current scene and noting that my title applies more than ever I almost wonder whether I might have stumbled on some sort of law.
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