Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 206 g
Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 206 g
Reihe: Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics
ISBN: 978-0-691-09292-8
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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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FOREWORD 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
