Alexander Gerschenkron
Alexander Gerschenkron · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Economic historian; theorist of economic backwardness and late industrialization
1904, Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1978, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Austria · United States
Alexander Gerschenkron is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Economic historian; theorist of economic backwardness and late industrialization
Alexander Gerschenkron was an economic historian at Harvard best known for his theory of 'economic backwardness,' arguing that late-industrializing countries substitute institutions such as banks and the state for missing preconditions and industrialize in distinctive 'advantages of backwardness' spurts. Born into a Jewish family in Odessa, he fled the Bolshevik Revolution to Vienna and later the Nazi Anschluss to the United States.
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Economic historian; theorist of economic backwardness and late industrialization
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Political Philosophy & Science
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