Shifting Involvements

Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

By: Albert O. Hirschman, Robert H. Frank (Foreword by)

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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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Winner of the Talcott Parsons Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences "Original... Mr. Hirschman, one of our most distinguished economists, is no ordinary writer...even his offhand ruminations have always been interesting. So is this book."--Peter L. Berger, New York Times Book Review "Shifting Involvements can be read over and over again, with each reading disclosing new subtleties, so cunning is its construction and so original its standpoint."--Michael Banton, Times Literary Supplement "This interesting essay contains a wealth of ideas. There is a surprising freshness in the treatment of such a well worn topic as the relation between public and private concerns... Intellectually stimulating."--David Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement "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."--Eli Ginzberg, Journal of Economic Literature

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Introduction: A Private-Public Cycle?	p. 3
On Disappointment	p. 9
The Role of Disappointment in Preference Change	p. 9
Taking Disappointment Seriously	p. 14
Varieties of Consumer Disappointment	p. 25
The Privileged Position of Truly Nondurable Goods	p. 27
Consumer Durables	p. 32
Services	p. 39
The General Hostility Toward New Wealth	p. 46
Historical Evidence from the Eighteenth Century in England and France	p. 46
The Manifold Case against New Goods	p. 53
From Private Concerns into the Public Arena-I	p. 62
Exit and Voice Reactions to Consumer Disappointment	p. 62
Explaining Changes in Life-Styles: Ideology and Second-Order Volitions	p. 66
From Private Concerns into the Public Arena-II	p. 77
Collective Action and the Rebound Effect	p. 77
Why Free Rides Are Spurned	p. 82
The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life-1	p. 92
The Poverty of Our Imagination	p. 93
Overcommitment and Addiction	p. 96
The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life-II	p. 103
The Underinvolvement of Voting	p. 103
A Historical Digression on the Origins of Universal Suffrage	p. 112
Privatization	p. 121
Corruption	p. 123
Public Virtue Debunked	p. 125
Attractions of the Private Sphere	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 131
Index	p. 135
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