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Resistance and Rebellion
Lessons from Eastern Europe
Av Roger D. Petersen, Jon Elster m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of …
Explaining Technical Change
A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science
Av Jon Elster, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
549 kr
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Technical change, defined as the manufacture and modification of tools, is generally thought to have played an important role in the evolution of intelligent life on earth, comparable to that of language. In this volume, first published in 1983, Jon Elster approaches the study of technical change …
The Critical Mass in Collective Action
Av Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1775 kr
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The problem of collective action is that each member of a group wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Inevitably the end result is that no one does the work and the common interest is not …
The Possibility of Cooperation
Av Michael Taylor, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
468 kr
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This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focusing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoners' Dilemma supergame. It is a revised and expanded …
The Cement of Society
A Survey of Social Order
Av Jon Elster, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
976 kr
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The question Jon Elster addresses in this challenging book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behaviour, and co-operative behaviour. The book examines various aspects of …
Foundations of Social Choice Theory
Av Jon Elster, Aanund Hylland m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
634 kr
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The essays in this volume, first published in 1986, examine the philosophical foundations of social choice theory. This field, a modern and sophisticated outgrowth of welfare economics, is best known for a series of impossibility theorems, of which the first and most crucial was proved by Kenneth …
Democracy and the Market
Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America
Av Adam Przeworski, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
390 kr
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The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern …
