he ability to reshape opinion toward reform -- still less toward revolution along the Marxist line.
The social force of shared values should not be underestimated. Even more important for the structure of society is the implication for society if those shared values are out of line with social justice. If the shared values of society tend to reinforce injustice, then social and legislated reform will be difficult to accomplish. A similar argument is developed by Hirschman, who says (1) that "economists have paid little attention to repairable lapses of economic actors" (with "actors" referring to institutions, individuals, or groups). The concern with repairable lapses amounts to a challenge to the idea that impersonal economic trends can be observed and analyzed but not altered by the response of institutions or groups upon which these trends act in negative ways. Hirschman's analysis focuses on organizations that are functioning in a society where there is "surplus," or what Marx would call "surplus value," i.e., in industrialized societies rather than su
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