The ceremony for the 2008 Albert O. Hirschman Prize was held on Friday, October 3, kicking off a conference dedicated to the life and works of this year's winner, Charles Tilly, who died just weeks after receiving the prize.
Hirschman Prize recipient Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri professor of international political economy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, delivered the Inaugural Hirschman Prize Lecture on 1 November 2007 at the Princeton Club in New York City.