Jon Elster Forfatter
Visning: Type : Alle | Sprog : Alle | Format : Alle
-
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than a political theorist.... Læs mere
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than a political theorist.... Læs mere
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Elster proposes a normative theory of collective decision making. The central proposal is that in designing democratic institutions one should reduce the impact of self-interest, passion, prejudice and bias on the decision makers, and let the chips fall where they may.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality subverts orthodox theories of rational choice. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series... Læs mere
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Elster proposes a normative theory of collective decision making. The central proposal is that in designing democratic institutions one should reduce the impact of self-interest, passion, prejudice and bias on the decision makers, and let the chips fall where they may.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Foundations of Social Choice Theory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
First published in 1986, this volume of essays offers an examination of the philosophical foundations of social choice theory, in its context as the outgrowth of welfare economics. The essays advance both criticisms and suggestions for alternative approaches.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
An Introduction to Karl Marx (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 what is dead in the philosophy of Marx'.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Making Sense of Marx (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A critical examination of the social theories of Karl Marx.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Explaining Technical Change: A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Technical change, defined as the manufacture and modification of tools, is generally thought to have played an important role in the... Læs mere
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Rationale Argumentation: Ein Grundkurs in Argumentations- und Wissenschaftstheorie (Bog, Paperback / softback, Tysk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
