What I take from Hirschman is two things. His passions and interests give me the emotional basis of the rules-based order, and his unbalanced growth reads to me as metabolic stress, which is exactly where development happens.
How the word moved
In February and March 2025 I used his passions and interests to frame the RBIO. In December 2025 I titled an essay The Strategy of Metabolic Development as a homage to his Strategy of Economic Development. Imbalance is opportunity. I can't improve on that.
In my words
"Hirschman reminds us that imbalance is opportunity."
from Bhumics. Weekly Planet #17: The Strategy of Metabolic Development, 15 Dec 2025
Related
- Related Rules-Based International Order - he gives me its emotional basis.
- Related Metabolic Development - the concept is a homage to him.
- Related Amartya Sen - he and Sen are my paired heroes of development.