{"product_id":"shifting-involvements-9780691092928","title":"Shifting Involvements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD ix  PREFACE xv  INTRODUCTION: A Private-Public Cycle? 3  Chapter 1. On Disappointment 9  The Role of Disappointment in Preference Change 9  Taking Disappointment Seriously 14  Chapter 2. Varieties of Consumer Disappointment 25  The Privileged Position of Truly Nondurable Goods 27  Consumer Durables 32  Services 39  Chapter 3. The General Hostility Toward New Wealth 46  Historical Evidence from the Eighteenth Century in England and France 46  The Manifold Case against New Goods 53  Chapter 4. From Private Concerns into the Public Arena-I 62  Exit and Voice Reactions to Consumer Disappointment 62  Explaining Changes in Life-Styles: Ideology and Second-Order Volitions 66  Chapter 5. From Private Concerns into the Public Arena-II 77  Collective Action and the Rebound Effect 77  Why Free Rides Are Spurned 82  Chapter 6. The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life-1 92  The Poverty of Our Imagination 93  Overcommitment and Addiction 96  Chapter 7. The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life-II 103  The Underinvolvement of Voting 103  A Historical Digression on the Origins of Universal Suffrage 112  Chapter 8. Privatization 121  Corruption 123  Public Virtue Debunked 125  Attractions of the Private Sphere 128  CONCLUSION 131  INDEX 135","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403720597847,"sku":"9780691092928","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691092928.jpg?v=1730484353","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shifting-involvements-9780691092928","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}