And most severely of all, even if the backward linkages do link, either in the way that Hirschman envisaged, or in some other way, they can do so in such a way as actually to strengthen those social and political relations — the hierarchical relations of patronage and so of 'corruption' that Hirschman, like Adam Smith, so disliked — which it is their purpose to override.

XREF: Turns Hirschman's and Adam Smith's optimism on its head — both disliked patronage and corruption, yet linkage-driven development may reinforce such hierarchies.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 1573