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Argumentationsteori, språk och vetenskapsfilosofi
Av Dagfinn Föllesdal, Lars Wallöe m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
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257 kr
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Förnuft och rationalitet
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 2011
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100 kr
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Det latinska ordet ratio ligger till grund för två mycket olika men besläktade idétraditioner inom analysen av mänskligt beteende. Å ena sidan den tradition som ställer förnuft mot passioner och, på senare tid, mot intressen. Å andra sidan den långt senare tillkomna idén om rationella val, dvs. val …
America before 1787
The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here, he …
Sour Grapes
Studies in the Subversion of Rationality
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 2016
373 kr
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Drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, decision-theory, economics, psychology, history and literature, Jon Elster's classic book Sour Grapes continues and complements the arguments of his acclaimed earlier book, Ulysses and the Sirens. Elster begins with an analysis of the notation of …
Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 2000
575 kr
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Explaining Social Behavior
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Av Jon Elster
E-bok, 2007
359 kr
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This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author''s critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms …
Capitalist Collective Action
Competition, Cooperation and Conflict in the Coal Industry
Av John R. Bowman, G. A. Cohen m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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This 1989 volume presents a theory of capitalist collective action and a case study of the pre-World War II American coal industry to which the theory is applied. The author examines the irony of capitalist firms that do not want to compete with each other, but often cannot avoid doing so. He then …
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 …
Getting Hooked
Rationality and Addiction
Av Jon Elster, Ole-Jørgen Skog
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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The essays in this volume offer a thorough discussion of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This book-length treatment of the subject includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists and economists. Contrary to the widespread view that addicts …
Ulysses and the Sirens
Studies in Rationality and Irrationality
Av Jon Elster, Jon Elster
Häftad, 1984
406 kr
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This book was first published in 1984, as the revised edition of a 1979 original. The text is composed of studies in a descending sequence from perfect rationality, through imperfect and problematical rationality, to irrationality. Specifically human rationality is characterized by its capacity to …
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 …
Making Sense of Marx
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 1985
536 kr
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A systematic, critical examination of Karl Marx's social theories and their philosophical presuppositions. Through extensive discussions of the texts Jon Elster offers a balanced and detailed account of Marx's views that is at once sympathetic, undogmatic and rigorous. Equally importantly he tries …
An Introduction to Karl Marx
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 1986
373 kr
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A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought for the beginning student. Jon Elster surveys in turn each of the main themes of marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology; in a …
Karl Marx
A Reader
Av Karl Marx, Jon Elster
Häftad, 1986
422 kr
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This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx's most important writings, organized thematically under eight headings: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology. Jon Elster provides a brief introduction to each selection to explain its …
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 Multiple Self
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 1987
878 kr
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The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided - as a 'multiple self'. The issue is a central one for several disciplines. It bears directly on the account of rationality and the explanation of individual …
Minority Government and Majority Rule
Av Kaare Strøm, Jon Elster
Inbunden, 1990
1970 kr
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Minority governments in parliamentary democracies are conventionally considered to be unstable and ineffective aberrations from the principle of majority rule. Through analysis of over 350 postwar governments, the author shows that minority governments are neither exceptional nor unstable but in …
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 1989
716 kr
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This 1989 book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition which offers a toolbox of mechanisms - nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels - that can be used to explain complex social phenomena. Within a brief compass, Jon Elster …
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 …
Solomonic Judgements
Studies in the Limitation of Rationality
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 1989
732 kr
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This volume of essays is very much a sequel to the two earlier collections by Jon Elster, Ulysses and the Sirens and Sour Grapes. His topic is rationality - its scope, its limitations, and its failures. Elster considers rational responses to the insufficiency of reason itself, and to the …
Alternatives to Capitalism
Häftad, 1989
370 kr
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The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that offer possible alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. The point of departure agreed upon by the contributors is that on the one hand, capitalism produces unemployment, a lack of autonomy in the …
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 …
Political Psychology
Av Jon Elster
Inbunden, 1993
1335 kr
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This provocative new textbook takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social and political institutions. Second, he …
Political Psychology
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 1993
732 kr
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This provocative new textbook takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social and political institutions. Second, he …
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 …
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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The eleven essays in this volume, supplemented by an editorial introduction, centre around three overlapping problems. First, why would a society want to limit its own sovereign power by imposing constitutional constraints on democratic decision-making? Second, what are the contributions of …
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
Häftad, 1993
901 kr
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In this volume a diverse group of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists address the problems, principles, and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals. A series of questions lie at the heart of this investigation: What is the relevant …
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies
Rebuilding the Ship at Sea
Av Jon Elster, Claus Offe m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1918 kr
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The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy. They integrate interdisciplinary theoretical work with elaborate empirical data on some of the most …
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies
Rebuilding the Ship at Sea
Av Jon Elster, Claus Offe m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
708 kr
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The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy. They integrate interdisciplinary theoretical work with elaborate empirical data on some of the most …
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
Av Jon Elster
Inbunden, 2009
753 kr
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The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Elster argues that Tocqueville's main claim to our attention today rests on …
