Hirschman Explained

Hirschman or Hirschmann is a German surname, where 'Hirsch' means Deer. It may refer to:

People

Hirschman

• Albert O. Hirschman (1915–2012), German-American economist
• Herbert Hirschman (1914–1985), American television producer and director
• Isidore Isaac Hirschman, Jr. (1922–1990), American mathematician
• Jack Hirschman (1933–2021), American poet and social activist

Hirschmann

• Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann (1877–1951), Dutch banker and General Secretary of FIFA
• Maria Anne Hirschmann, American teacher
• Ursula Hirschmann (1913–1991), German anti-fascist activist and an advocate of European federalism

See also

• Herfindahl–Hirschman Index, a measure of the size of firms in relation to the industry and an indicator of the amount of competition among them
• Herschmann, surname
• Hirschman cycle, attempts to describe cycles in American political power
• Hirschman uncertainty, in quantum mechanics, information theory, and Fourier analysis, the entropic uncertainty or Hirschman uncertainty is the sum of the temporal and spectral Shannon entropies
• Hirshman, surname