Shifting involvements : private interest and public action
By: Albert O. Hirschman.
Edition: 20th anniversary ed. / with a new foreword by Robert H. Frank.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Self-interest; Consumption (Economics); Political participation; Collective behavior
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.