{"product_id":"development-projects-observed-9780815726425","title":"Development Projects Observed","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Albert O. Hirschman | Cass R. Sunstein | Michele Alacevich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brookings Institution Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Development - Economic Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of \u003ci\u003eDevelopment Projects Observed\u003c\/i\u003e is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is in this book that Hirschman first shared his now famous \"\"Principle of the Hiding Hand.\"\" In an April 2013 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e issue, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an appreciation of the principle, described by Cass Sunstein in the book's new foreword as \"\"a bit of a trick up history's sleeve.\"\" It can be summed up as a phenomenon in which people's inability to foresee obstacles leads to actions that succeed because people have far more problem-solving ability that they anticipate or appreciate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it is in \u003ci\u003eDevelopment Projects Observed\u003c\/i\u003e that Hirschman laid the foundation for the core of his most important work, \u003ci\u003eExit, Voice, and Loyalty\u003c\/i\u003e, and later led to the concept of an \"\"exit strategy.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e\"","brand":"Brookings Institution Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46861226410135,"sku":"9780815726425","price":2443.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780815726425.webp?v=1769961189","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/development-projects-observed-9780815726425","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}