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Arrange the following statements in a logical sequence to form a meaningful paragraph: 1. The book that distilled that experience...

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Arrange the following statements in a logical sequence to form a meaningful paragraph:

1. The book that distilled that experience, The Strategy of Economic Development, was immediately recognized as one of the most important contributions to development economics, and it made Hirschman famous as a pioneer of the discipline (as well as earning him tenure at Columbia University).

2. One such figure was Albert O Hirschman, a German-born émigré to the United States who from 1946 had worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Board on problems of economic reconstruction and cooperation in Western Europe.

3. In 1952, Hirschman moved to Colombia on a World Bank assignment to assist the country’s National Planning Council to implement development policies.

4. The book’s success rested on its original and stimulating analyses, as well as on Hirschman’s rhetorical strategy of presenting them as a completely novel and dissenting view on development, entirely different from the fashionable orthodoxy of grandiose but unrealistic development plans.

 

a 2,4,3,1

 

b 3,2,1,4

 

c 2,3,1,4

 

d 1,4,2,3

 

e 3,1,4,2

 

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    Option C is the correct answer. Sentence 2 begins the sequence as it is the only one that has the full name of the economist, whereas all the other sentences refer to him by his last name, Hirschman. 1 follows 3 because that experience in 1 refers to Hirschman’s experience in Colombia on the World Bank assignment mentioned in 3. 4 follows 1 because the book mentioned in 4 has been named in 1. So, 2314 is the required sequence.