Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action (Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics): Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition - Softcover

Hirschman, Albert O.

 
9780691092928: Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action (Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics): Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691092923 ISBN 13: 9780691092928
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private concerns. Emerging from this study is a wide range of insights, from a critique of conventional consumption theory to a new understanding of collective action and of universal suffrage.

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About the Author

Albert O. Hirschman is a member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of many books, including Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and The Strategy of Economic Development. Robert H. Frank is Godwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is the author of Luxury Fever (Princeton).

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0691092923
ISBN 13 
9780691092928
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
156