Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

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.

Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 01/27/2002
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.43w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780691092928

About the Author
Albert O. Hirschman is a member of the Institute for 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).