Shifting Involvements

Download or Read eBook Shifting Involvements PDF written by Albert O. Hirschman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shifting Involvements
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 0691092923
ISBN-13 : 9780691092928
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Book Synopsis Shifting Involvements by : Albert O. Hirschman

Book excerpt: 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.


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