Shifting Involvements
Albert O. Hirschman
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Wirtschaft
Beschreibung
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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At Best, Culture and Society, Morality, Marginal utility, Ambivalence, Customer, Economics, Collective action, Politique, Ideology, Hostility, Lustration, Exertion, Loyalty, Opportunism, Decision-making, Circumlocution, Meal, Consumption (economics), Commodity, Durable good, Economic power, Air pollution, Boomerang effect (psychology), Affair, Private sphere, Pragmatism, Opportunity cost, Amartya Sen, Oppression, Disenchantment, Conspicuous consumption, Pessimism, Forbidden knowledge, Boredom, Injunction, Activism, Consumer, Anecdotal evidence, Nouveau riche, Capitalism, Dichotomy, Consumerism, Dirty hands, Mess of pottage, Income, Apathy, Pity, Consumer Goods, John Stuart Mill, Consciousness, Hannah Arendt, Adage, One man, one vote, Explanation, Betterment, Political apathy, Princeton University Press, Calculation, Critique, Human behavior, New class, Cost–benefit analysis, Literature, Criticism, Intellectual history, Human Action, Invisible hand, Politics, Cess