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 invol...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hirschman, Albert O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton University Press, 2002-01-07 00:00:00.0.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Self-interest.
Political participation.
Consumption (Economics)
Collective behavior.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Comportement collectif.
Participation politique.
Interêt personnel.
Mass Behavior
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

Similar Items