Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action (Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691092923 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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.. 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
Frank is Godwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Cornell University. . Albert O. He is the author of Luxury Fever (Princeton). Hirschman is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of many books, including Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and The
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. Winner of the Talcott Parsons Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences"Original. Mr. There is a surprising freshness in the treatment of such a well worn topic as the relation between public and private concerns. Hirschman, one of our most distinguished economists, is no ordinary writer.even his offhand ruminatio
Antonia Bercovici said Underrated Economist. I am a Hirschman admirer. He is one of our country's best (and underrated) economists. I wish more people were reading him especially in Washington -- but perhaps it should be required reading for all future economists. Sadly, Hirschman died recently. His thinking to economic thought have been too long neglected.. C. Magee said interesting but not compelling. The author's premise that the general public is given to mass swings from seeking private gain to seeking public benefit, both driven by disappointment, is interesting; but the argument is never quite proven. For starters, there is offered no empirical evidence that this occurs. (The only historical review given is in support of the narrower point that a growing level of wealth generates disappointment in various affected classes.) Secondly, the explanations for why such swings *might* happen, or be expected to happen, never quite explain why