Preface to this edition Richard Holton; Acknowledgements; 1. Rationality; 2. States that are essentially by-products; 3. Sour grapes; 4. Belief, bias and ideology; References; Index.
This book is Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.
Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of the Social Sciences at Columbia University and Professeur Honoraire at the Collège de France. He is the author or editor of thirty-four books on the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory, including Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections (Cambridge, 2013) and Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2015).
'Elster is an extremely impressive writer, at home in several
languages and in a wide range of scholarly discourses, from
philosophy, through game theory, parts of economics and psychology,
to literary criticism. He writes attractively and inventively '
Mary K. Farmer, The Economic Journal"
'What makes [Elster] distinctive is a combination of philosophical
acuity and detailed attention to contemporary work in history, the
social sciences and cognitive psychology When Elster is at the top
of his form the general ideas form the framework for the argument
which is itself actually carried to great extent through the use of
examples. This is hard to convey in a review. But it is what gives
Elster's work its uniquely attractive quality. I would defy anyone
to read, in particular, the second chapter of Sour Grapes without
being charmed by the play of a subtle intellect in a remarkable
range of materials.' Brian Barry, The London Review of Books"
???Elster is an extremely impressive writer, at home in several
languages and in a wide range of scholarly discourses, from
philosophy, through game theory, parts of economics and psychology,
to literary criticism. He writes attractively and inventively
?????? Mary K. Farmer, The Economic Journal
???I cannot imagine anyone interested in the philosophy of the
social sciences who could fail to profit from and be stimulated by
this book.??? Flint Schier, Philosophical Books
???What makes [Elster] distinctive is a combination of
philosophical acuity and detailed attention to contemporary work in
history, the social sciences and cognitive psychology ??? When
Elster is at the top of his form the general ideas form the
framework for the argument which is itself actually carried to
great extent through the use of examples. This is hard to convey in
a review. But it is what gives Elster??'s work its uniquely
attractive quality. I would defy anyone to read, in particular, the
second chapter of Sour Grapes without being charmed by the play of
a subtle intellect in a remarkable range of materials.??? Brian
Barry, The London Review of Books
?Elster is an extremely impressive writer, at home in several
languages and in a wide range of scholarly discourses, from
philosophy, through game theory, parts of economics and psychology,
to literary criticism. He writes attractively and inventively ??
Mary K. Farmer, The Economic Journal
?I cannot imagine anyone interested in the philosophy of the social
sciences who could fail to profit from and be stimulated by this
book.? Flint Schier, Philosophical Books
?What makes [Elster] distinctive is a combination of philosophical
acuity and detailed attention to contemporary work in history, the
social sciences and cognitive psychology ? When Elster is at the
top of his form the general ideas form the framework for the
argument which is itself actually carried to great extent through
the use of examples. This is hard to convey in a review. But it is
what gives Elster's work its uniquely attractive quality. I would
defy anyone to read, in particular, the second chapter of Sour
Grapes without being charmed by the play of a subtle intellect in a
remarkable range of materials.? Brian Barry, The London Review of
Books
'I cannot imagine anyone interested in the philosophy of the social
sciences who could fail to profit from and be stimulated by this
book.' Flint Schier, Philosophical Books
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