Shifting Involvements : : Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition / / Albert O. Hirschman.

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• VerfasserIn: Hirschman, Albert O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: Twentieth-Anniversary edition with a New foreword by Robert H. Frank
• Language: English
• Series: Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword: On The Twentieth Anniversary of Albert O. Hirschman's Shifting Involvements --; Preface --; Introduction: A Private-Public Cycle? --; Chapter 1. On Disappointment --; Chapter 2. Varieties of Consumer Disappointment --; Chapter 3. The General Hostility Toward New Wealth --; Chapter 4. From Private Concerns into the Public Arena - I --; Chapter 5. From Private Concerns into the Public Arena - II --; Chapter 6. The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life - I --; Chapter 7. The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life - II --; Chapter 8. Privatization --; Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400828265; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400828265
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Albert O. Hirschman.

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.