Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action

Hirschman, Albert O.

ISBN 10: 0691092923 / ISBN 13: 9780691092928

Published by Princeton University Press, 2002

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Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xvi + 138pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked. Edges slightly marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Economics; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0691092923. ISBN/EAN: 9780691092928. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 59934.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691092923
• ISBN 13: 9780691092928
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: Twentieth-Anniversary Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

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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.

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).