Shifting Involvements Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition |
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| Author:
| Hirschman, Albert O. |
| Series title: | Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-09292-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? This work offers a 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.
Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? This work offers a 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.