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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 Author: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... more » 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.« less