Shifting Involvements Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

Name: Shifting Involvements Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780691092928

ISBN-10: 0691092923

ISBN-13: 9780691092928

Edition: 20th 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Albert O. Hirschman, Robert H. Frank

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With chapters on private concerns and the public arena, consumer disappointment, hostility toward new wealth and the frustration of participation in public life, this text provides an overall view of private interest and public action.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/27/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.43" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Introduction: A Private-Public Cycle?



On Disappointment


The Role of Disappointment in Preference Change


Taking Disappointment Seriously



Varieties of Consumer Disappointment


The Privileged Position of Truly Nondurable Goods


Consumer Durables


Services



The General Hostility Toward New Wealth


Historical Evidence from the Eighteenth Century in England and France


The Manifold Case against New Goods



From Private Concerns into the Public Arena-I


Exit and Voice Reactions to Consumer Disappointment


Explaining Changes in Life-Styles: Ideology and Second-Order Volitions



From Private Concerns into the Public Arena-II


Collective Action and the Rebound Effect


Why Free Rides Are Spurned



The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life-1


The Poverty of Our Imagination


Overcommitment and Addiction



The Frustrations of Participation in Public Life-II


The Underinvolvement of Voting


A Historical Digression on the Origins of Universal Suffrage



Privatization


Corruption


Public Virtue Debunked


Attractions of the Private Sphere


Conclusion


Index