Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States

"Professor Hirschman's small book is bursting with new ideas.The economist has typically assumed that dissatisfaction with an organization's product is met by withdrawal of demand, while the political scientist thinks rather of the protests possible within the organization. Hirschman argues that both processes are at work and demonstrates beautifully by analysis and example that their interaction has surprising implications, a theory that illuminates strikingly many important economic and political phenomena of the day.The whole argument is developed with an extraordinary richness of reference to many societies and cultures." Kenneth J.
Arrow. "This is a marvelously perceptive essay which illuminates some of the most interesting economic and social questions of our time. I have read it with enormous interest and admiration, and the further pleasure that one has in being with an author who can think things through." John Kenneth Galbraith. "Some leading economists have moved toward a more explicit consideration of political problems.
Albert O. Hirschman's book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty will prove, I believe, an outstanding contribution ...to political theory" Karl W. Deutsch, in his presidential address, American Political Science Association. "There is, of course, no substitute for a mind as original, playful, subtle, and fresh as Hirschman's." Stanley Hoffmann. "I read Exit, Voice, and Loyalty with absolute fascination and found that it pulled together, in organized form, many random glimmerings that I had previously understood only dimly." Joseph Kraft.