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	Alexander Gerschenkron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Gerschenkron was a Harvard economic historian trained in the Austrian School of economics.
		Gerschenkron also advanced the linear stages theory of economic development which posits that economic development goes forward in fairly determined stages.
		However, he did accept that different periods exhibit different types of development: for instance, with the coexistence of advanced and backward countries, that latter could skip several stages which the former had to go through by adopting their advanced technology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Gerschenkron (233 words)

	The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered
		As the subtitle of the volume suggests, one of its major purposes is to reconsider Alexander Gerschenkron's influential contention that universal banking, defined broadly in the introduction to the volume as "banks that accept deposits, and engage in both short- and long-term lending" (p.
		An alternative explanation to Gerschenkron's, an exploration of which motivates the volume, is that of the other co-editor, Verdier, a political scientist at Ohio State University.
		In a nutshell, Verdier's alternative to Gerschenkron holds that universal banking arises when the deposit market is segmented between non-profit and profit-oriented institutions (which is more likely in decentralized polities), and when the central bank is active as a supplier of liquidity and lender of last resort.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0917.shtml (1691 words)

	Discount The Fly Swatter : How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World for sale
		Alexander Gerschenkron is the type of man many of us would like to be: smart, charming, interested in the world, charismatic, etc. His grandson, Nicholas Dawidoff, seemingly captured his life in a surprisingly honest and thoughtful manner.
		Gerschenkron was hyperactive; he gave up reading the newspaper in middle age, citing the number of books he had yet to read and reasoning that the time the papers took from this was objectionable.
		Gerschenkron developed theories of economic behavior that are classics, now, and some which were of great importance to US policymakers' understanding of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and of developing nations' economic behavior.
	www.business-books.us /pub/0375400273.html (1541 words)

	Tough Love
		To impress upon his new charges what a "wonderful opportunity" the term paper was, he required all 60 of them to schedule an individual meeting with him in his office to have their topic approved.
		He wanted to study under Gerschenkron and some day to have an office full of books of his own, and to know what was in all of them.
		Everything about Gerschenkron intrigued Rosovsky, from the brandy and the lumberjacket [he regularly wore] to more existential matters such as who exactly Shura was.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/070284.html (5424 words)

	Alexander Gerschenkron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A Russian-born, Austrian-trained Harvard economic historian, Alexander Gerschenkron never exactly escaped his Russian roots - whether in his economics, his history or his recreational work as a critic of Russian literature.
		In a celebrated 1947 article, he found the famous "Gerschenkron effect" (i.e.
		Gerschenkron was also a famous propounder of the "linear stages" theory of economic development, perhaps best demonstrated in his 1962 book.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/gerschen.htm (187 words)

	Alexander Gerschenkron -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Alexander Gerschenkron was a Harvard (additional info and facts about economic historian) economic historian trained in the (additional info and facts about Austrian School) Austrian School of (The branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management) economics.
		His early work concentrated on development in (Formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia) Soviet Russia and (additional info and facts about Eastern Europe) Eastern Europe.
		This was illustrated by the peculiar paths of industrialization of (additional info and facts about Meiji) Meiji (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan and Soviet Russia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alexander_gerschenkron.htm (254 words)

	JWSR - Volume I - Article
		In a 1962 collection of essays, _Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective_, Gerschenkron reflected on the historical changes in sources of funding for industrialization (which he equated at the time with development).
		I shall ask whether parts of the Third world have already missed the bus and what might be done to accelerate the early arrival of a suitable conveyance which will, at the very least, appear to be headed in the direction of sustainable global development.
		When Alexander Gerschenkron considered the financing of earlier economic transformations, he pointed to an historical succession of funding sources: private accumulations of wealth in the 18th century, the banks in the 19th century and the state in the 20th century.
	jwsr.ucr.edu /archive/vol1/v1_n2.php (4612 words)

	Powell's Books - The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World by Nicholas Dawidoff
		From the author of the bestselling Catcher Was a Spy — the remarkable story of his grand-father, Alexander Gerschenkron, a Russia-born, Viennese-trained economist who transformed himself into a singular American character.
		Gerschenkron stories were always vivid: he played chess with Marcel Duchamp, flirted with Marlene Dietrich, confided in Isaiah Berlin of Oxford and Ted Williams of the Red Sox.
		From the author of the bestselling Catcher Was a Spy comes the remarkable chronicle of his grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron, a Russia-born, Viennese-trained economist who transformed himself into a singular American character.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0375400273-5 (301 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Russian Economic Development
		Professor Alexander Gerschenkron is among the most thoughtful, learned and painstaking of specialists in the history of the economic development of modern Europe.
		Professor Gerschenkron uses the concept of "Economic Backwardness" repeatedly in a manner which is, I think, not free of these shortcomings.
		Gerschenkron there says: "…industry may have been passing through a period as governed by the effects of diminished backwardness." No; such concepts—"dynamic preparation" and "diminished backwardness"—are not, I think, helpful at all: they do not explain anything.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/13759 (3197 words)

	Economic Principals
		The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, Nicholas Dawidoff's account of the life of Alexander Gerschenkron, the great 20th-century scholar of economic development, is missing a good thing.
		Dawidoff traces Gerschenkron's flight from the Bolsheviks in the Ukraine to Vienna, and from the Nazis to Berkeley, California, where wrote, translated and worked in the shipyards for a time.
		Gerschenkron arrived in Cambridge just as mathematization was beginning to sweep the profession, emanating from the department in the institution at the other end of town -- the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	www.economicprincipals.com /issues/05.04.24.html (1596 words)

	Alibris: Alexander
		The delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's already hugely popular new detective series, "The Sunday Philosophy Club," stars the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie--editor of the "Journal of Applied Ethics"--and her no-nonsense housekeeper, Grace.
		Alexander imparts the true story of Major Dick Winters, the man who became the inspiration for the hit HBO mini-series, "Band of Brothers." Includes photos.
		Christopher Alexander's brilliant, classic work on architecture and its meaning for actual human beings who live with it contains the 253 elements he considers essential for workable houses, neighborhoods, and cities.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Alexander (1227 words)

	Harvard University Press/Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
		The late Alexander Gerschenkron held a degree of Doctor Rerum Politicarum from the University of Vienna.
		He was Chief of the Foreign Areas Section at the Federal Reserve Board, as well as Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic History Workshop, Harvard University.
		Gerschenkron opens new paths of research and poses a number of pertinent questions for the modern problem of economic development in backward countries.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/GERECO.html (234 words)

	The Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But in an era before the academy succumbed to credentialism, a man like Gerschenkron, possessing a degree in economics—but no doctorate—from the University of Vienna, could still end up a tenured professor at Harvard.
		Gerschenkron’s biographer and grandson, Nicholas Dawidoff, derives his title, The Fly Swatter, from his grandfather’s tendency to apply ferocious energy, a kind of psychic overkill, to endeavors great or small.
		Gerschenkron’s major contribution to economics was to emphasize the ways in which adversity can be helpful to a country’s development, a process that mirrored his own life.
	www.akst.com /flyswatter.htm (438 words)

	the semiperiphery
		Alexander Gerschenkron (1966), an economic historian, further developed the idea of "the advantages of backwardness" to explain the rapid industrialization of certain countries that followed Britain's lead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		Gerschenkron noted that rapid secondary industrialization has aspects that are similar to social movements in that economic change occurs across many sectors together and the whole process involves a spirit that combines entrepreneurship with collective enthusiasm.
		Serfdom is mentioned as a social organizational barrier to industrialization, but Gerschenkron argued that the very lack of an industrial labor force might facilitate rapid industrialization by encouraging the adoption of the most up-to-date labor saving production technology.
	www.irows.ucr.edu /cd/theory/b5ch5.htm (10292 words)

	Bain Alexander: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		(18) Alexander Bain, The Senses and the Intellect...
		Alexander Bain, 38, fired a 12-bore shotgun into...when he put his plan into action.
		BAIN, ALEXANDER 1818 1903, Scottish philosopher and psychologist.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/bain-alexander.jsp?l=B&p=1 (1419 words)

	Bain Alexander: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		His name was Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Junior, but to his...sons of the equally remarkable Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, noted professor of...
		Several years later, Blair and Governor Alexander Spotswood disagreed over ecclesiastical authority, and Blair...While Blair was lobbying for the liquor tax, his old foe Alexander Spotswood was justifying to the Board his ownership of large...
		David Hartley, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and Alexander Bain stressed the relation of physiology to psychology, an important development in the scientific techniques of modern...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/bain-alexander.jsp?l=B&p=1 (1411 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Born in Odessa in 1904, Alexander Gerschenkron was just a boy when revolution gripped the streets of Russia with fear and danger.
		This time Alexander landed in the United States, where he overcame his beleaguered adolescence and "made his way" to Harvard.
		Cambridge honored "The Great Gerschenkron" as much for his vivid personality as for his immense learning, and he was forever amusing, instructing, challenging, and charming his colleagues.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-07-05/books_roundup6.html (288 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001052042 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Born in 1904 into the progressive Odessa intelligentsia, Gerschenkron fled the Russian Revolution at sixteen and settled in Vienna, immersing himself in the charged civic and intellectual life of another doomed city.
		Gerschenkron was a dazzling thinker, and his professional theories complemented his personal preoccupations.
		Gerschenkron was an uncompromising man who feuded with everyone from Vladimir Nabokov to John Kenneth Galbraith, who played chess with Marcel Duchamp, who enjoyed an intimate interlude with Marlene Dietrich, and who was a confidant of both Isaiah Berlin of Oxford and Ted Williams of the Red Sox.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0414/2001052042.html (354 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: The Fly Swatter
		The Russia Alexander Gerschenkron was born into in 1904 was a vast and varied country of people who had been so frequently abused by tyrants that out of all the misery came a commonality of spirit shared even by Europeanized Russians like the Gerschenkrons.
		Paul Gerschenkron was a Russian businessman and a true Micawber-the lifelong victim of pecuniary liabilities to which he was unable to respond.
		Paul and Sophie Gerschenkron were the unusual wealthy Russians of that time who were truly liberal, who sympathized with the workers and the oppressed, dispatched their children to prisons to read to "the little unfortunates," as Sophie called them, and made genuine friendships with people from lower social classes such as Sophie's dressmaker.
	perec.wnyc.org /books/3511 (3924 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As economist Alexander Gerschenkron said, when compared with antecedent industrialized country, the backward country is more a launching-industrialization-later country than an economy-level-lagging-behind- relatively country.
		Gerschenkron advanced the point of the advantage of backwardness.
		Especially in the third aspect, according to Gerschenkron’s analysis, the more the backward country lag behind, the greater this idea and its effects.
	www.china-review.org /news/manage/image/45124610.doc (3618 words)

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		Gerschenkron described a pattern of Russian economic development which is observable on a number of occasions in the course of Russian history.
		In such situations, Gerschenkron asserts, the Russian state took on the role of initiator of econom ic development.
		In the Gerschenkron pattern, the dominant goal of the introduction of central planning in the Soviet economy at the end of the 1920s was the rapid growth of heavy industry_metals, machinery, fuels_to support military growth perceived necessary by Soviet l eaders.
	www.ssc.upenn.edu /east/spring95/levin.html (1367 words)

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		Even though politics and economics are interactive, one may have more impact on the other depending on the timing of the interaction, as John Nef shows in his Industry and Government in France and England, 1540-1640, and as Alexander Gerschenkron illustrates in Economic Backwardness.
		While the Nef and Gerschenkron case studies focus on development within individual states, Bates examines more generally the developmental differences between early modern states and new mid-20th century states.
		Gerschenkron’s work points out that the timing of one state’s economic development relative to other states’ has both economic and political implications.
	www.stanford.edu /class/polisci311/nng/ps311wk6.doc (1566 words)

	Powell's Books - The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character by Nicholas Dawidoff
		A reconstruction of Nicholas Dawidoff's grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron — the Harvard professor who knew the most.
		A fascinating character, Gerschenkron feuded with Vladimir Nabokov and John Kenneth Galbraith, flirted with Marlene Dietrich, and played chess with Marcel Duchamp and one-upped both Isiah Berlin and (allegedly) Ted Williams.
		At Harvard, this celebrated polyglot was known as "The Great Gerschenkron." He was an influential economic theorist who knew twenty languages and so much about so many other things that he was offered chairs in three departments.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=61-0375700064-0 (417 words)

	Alexander Gerschenkron on Criticism: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Alexander Gerschenkron on Criticism: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
		Alexander Gerschenkron: Let me have your criticism, general and particular, and let me have it promptly....
		the "Gerschenkron Effect" to be a pretty cute discovery.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /movable_type/2003_archives/001338.html (268 words)

	Notes: Alexander Gerschenkron: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		What the entire family admired was both the nerve of the rebel poet standing up to tyranny wherever he saw it, and his belief in a moral and compassionate life.
		I was about to tell Gerschenkron about an incident in which I more or less intimidated a sadistic sergeant, and Gerschenkron made it clear he didn't want to pursue that.
		Everything about Gerschenkron intrigued Rosovsky, from the brandy and the lumberjacket to more existential matters such as who exactly Shura was.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /movable_type/2003_archives/001431.html (1475 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World
		Still, researching and writing this book couldn't have been easy, since Gerschenkron, who died in 1978, was deliberately elusive about much of his early life.
		And if the second half of the book, with Gerschenkron comfortably ensconced in American academia, can't quite match that level of intensity, it is nonetheless fascinating stuff.
		He was inclined to tell people, for example, that he lunched regularly with Red Sox great Ted Williams (the two never met), and though he inspired a couple of generations of the nation's top economic historians, he never produced a major, career-crowning book.
	www.bookpage.com /0205bp/nonfiction/the_fly_swatter.html (325 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fly Swatter : How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World: Books: Nicholas Dawidoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It was the trauma of these upheavals, Dawidoff speculates, that made Gerschenkron refuse to talk about his past, even while his European experiences were clearly the driving force behind his scholarly interests and later his bitter opposition to the student protest movements.
		Indeed, given that those supposedly close to Gerschenkron Isaiah Berlin, physicist Philipp Frank, even Gerschenkron's sister insist that they hardly knew him, it's to Dawidoff's credit that this finely wrought book is not just a collection of amusing Gerschenkron sketches, but movingly conveys something of the man's inner life.
		MY GRANDFATHER, ALEXANDER GERSCHENKRON, WAS ALways making dramatic declarations, and one day when he was in his fifties he appeared in front of his family to announce that he was giving up the morning newspaper.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375400273?v=glance (2578 words)

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