Shifting Involvements : Private Interest and Public Action (Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics)

Shifting Involvements : Private Interest and Public Action (Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics)

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Literate, reflective, and sophisticated…. Hirschman's work. . . . is proof that an economist with a knowledge of and sensitivity for history will avoid the oversimplifications of economic theorists who see the world and human behavior in one dimension.

Book Description

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.

Shifting Involvements : Private Interest and Public Action (Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics),Albert O. Hirschman,Princeton University Press,0691092923,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Collective behavior,Consumption (Economics),Economic History,Economics - Theory,Political participation,Self-interest,Business & Economics / Economic History,Economic theory & philosophy,Economics,Political Science and International Relations,Sociology

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