Amy C. Offner

Amy C. Offner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is writing a book on Cold War anti-poverty programs, economic thought, and the making of neoliberalism in the US and Colombia.

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Masters of Reinvention

For the first 40 years of his life, Albert O. Hirschman was a little-known accessory to world-historic events. Born in Berlin in 1915, he was a refugee from Nazi Germany who wound his way through Europe’s anti-fascist movements, US wartime intelligence, the Marshall Plan, a McCarthyist investigation, and the World Bank’s first foray into Third […]