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1	Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition which offers a tool-box of mechanisms - nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels - that can be used to explain complex social phenomena. Within a brief compass, Jon Elster covers a vast range of topics. His point of departure is ... see all copies from $7.58! new only from $26.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $23.76! \| SVS
3	Karl Marx: A Reader more books like this by Jon Elster (Editor), Karl Marx add to wishlist 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 context and its place in Marx's argument. The ... see all copies from $2.36! new only from $24.50! \| SVS
4	Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist Analyzes the rational behavior, and the kinds and degrees of rationality and irrationality. The supposed parallels between the social and biological sciences are examined and the author sharply distinguishes human rationality from biological adaptation. see all copies from $29.95! first editions
5	Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 the large number of exportable causal mechanisms ... see all copies from $15.72! new only from $15.72! \| SVS
6	An Introduction to Karl Marx more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 final chapter he assesses 'what is living and ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Making Sense of Marx more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 to assess 'what is living and what is dead in the ... see all copies from $22.41! new only from $64.36! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe more books like this by Roger D Petersen, Gudmund Hernes (Editor), Jon Elster (Editor) add to wishlist 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 passive resistance and, at a second stage, into ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $36.62! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 concept of well-being for the purposes of comparison? ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $50.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Coercive Power in Social Exchange more books like this by Linda D Molm, Gudmund Hernes (Editor), Jon Elster (Editor) add to wishlist This book describes the progression and results of a decade-long experiment on power in social exchange relations. Exchange theorists have traditionally excluded punishment and coercion from their analyses; but Molm examines whether exchange theory can be expanded to include reward and coercive power. She develops and tests a theory that ... see all copies from $13.19! new only from $26.90! \| first editions
11 view cover	Alternatives to Capitalism more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 workplace, and massive income inequalities; while on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.82! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist Presents the study of the interrelation between three explanatory approaches to behaviour: neurobiology, culture and choice. The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Jon Elster's study sheds light on the generation of human behaviour, revealing how cognition, ... see all copies from $8.68! new only from $16.27! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea more books like this by Jon Elster, Ulrich K Preuss, Claus Offe add to wishlist 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 challenging events of the twentieth century. Three ... see all copies from $16.04! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology, Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behaviour. While acknowledging the importance of neurophysiology and laboratory ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $39.02! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order more books like this by Jon Elster (Editor), Gudmund Hernes (Editor) add to wishlist 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 collective action and bargaining from the ... see all copies from $9.93! new only from $40.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Multiple Self more books like this by Jon Elster (Editor) add to wishlist 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 decision-making and behaviour. Is the hypothesis ... see all copies from $11.76! new only from $42.53! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Political Psychology more books like this by Jon Elester, Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 argues for an important distinction in the social ... see all copies from $9.65! new only from $13.50! \| SVS
18 view cover	Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. Part I, 'The Universe of Transitional Justice', describes more than thirty transitions, some of them in considerable detail, others more succinctly. Part II, 'The Analytics of Transitional ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $13.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Political Psychology more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 argues for an important distinction in the social ... see all copies from $23.29! new only from $74.00! \| SVS
20 view cover	Solomonic Judgements: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist 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 'indeterminacies' in deploying rational-choice theory and ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $42.11! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints more books like this by Jon Elster add to wishlist Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long ... see all copies from $37.59! new only from $37.59! \| SVS
22 view cover	Deliberative Democracy more books like this by Jon Elster (Editor), Adam Przeworski (Contributions by), James Fearon (Contributions by) add to wishlist It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision-making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, that is decision by discussion or deliberation. The original contributions include case studies based on historical and current instances of deliberative democracy, normative discussion of ... see all copies from $13.80! new only from $28.18! \| SVS
23	Ethics of Medical Choice more books like this by Jon Elster (Editor) add to wishlist In the medical field in general, and in the one of organ transplants in particular, what effect can the institutional agents' perceptions of equity have? "The Ethics of Medical Choice" shows through examples in France, Germany, Norway and the United States, the way in which the issue of equality of access by potential beneficiaries is handled. It ... see all copies from $12.93! new only from $19.50! \| first editions
24 view cover	Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy more books like this by Jon Elster (Editor) add to wishlist The contributions in this volume offer a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present. They focus on retribution against the leaders and agents of the autocratic regime preceding the democratic transition, and on reparation to its victims. Part I contains general theoretical discussions of retribution and reparation. The ... see all copies from $59.99! new only from $85.02!
25	Stratification and Organization: Selected Papers more books like this by Arthur L Stinchcombe, Jon Elster (Editor), Gudmund Hernes (Editor) add to wishlist The essays in this collection, on stratification, organization and the discipline of sociology, all bear upon a general theoretical question: what models of rationality are necessary or suitable to explain individual and collective action in institutional contexts? Professor Stinchcombe was one of the first sociologists to write on this question; ... see all copies from $95.00! new only from $132.25! \| first editions

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