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Reason and Rationality by Jon Elster
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes... -
Alternatives to Capitalism by Jon Elster
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.60The 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... -
Constituent Assemblies by Jon Elster
Booksplease Price: £32.12Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus... -
Deliberative Democracy by Jon Elster 9780521596961
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27It 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... -
Making Sense of Marx by Jon Elster
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.08A 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... -
Political Psychology by Jon Elster 9780521411103
RRP: £76.99Booksplease Price: £73.75This 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... -
An Introduction to Karl Marx by Jon Elster
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41A 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:... -
Constituent Assemblies by Jon Elster 9781108427524
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.54Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus... -
Deliberative Democracy by Jon Elster 9780521592963
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93It 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... -
Constitutionalism and Democracy by Jon Elster 9780521457217
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £26.27The 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... -
The Multiple Self by Jon Elster 9780521346832
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £46.34The 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... -
Political Psychology by Jon Elster 9780521422864
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.81This 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... -
Karl Marx: A Reader by Jon Elster 9780521338325
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £22.92This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx's most important writings, organized thematically under eight headings: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism,... -
Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions by Jon Elster 9780521644877
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10Jon 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,... -
Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction by Jon Elster 9780521038799
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.64The 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,... -
Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates by Jon Elster 9781107083363
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham's Political Tactics, this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies... -
Foundations of Social Choice Theory by Jon Elster 9780521389136
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.67The 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... -
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being by Jon Elster 9780521457224
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £60.02In 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... -
Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions by Jon Elster 9780521642798
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.13Jon 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,... -
Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy by Jon Elster 9780521829731
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.34The 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... -
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster 9780521376068
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £36.99This 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... -
Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction by Jon Elster 9780521640084
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.27The 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,... -
Tocqueville: The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution by Jon Elster 9780521889803
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63This translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a challenge to readers as well as to translators. As... -
Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality by Jon Elster 9781316507001
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Drawing 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... -
Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective by Jon Elster
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78An 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... -
France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime by Jon Elster
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of... -
Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints by Jon Elster
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Common 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... -
Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality by Jon Elster 9780521269841
Booksplease Price: £23.27This 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... -
Tocqueville: The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution by Jon Elster 9780521718912
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.88This translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a challenge to readers as well as to translators. As... -
The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order by Jon Elster 9780521376075
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £51.36The 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,... -
Solomonic Judgements: Studies in the Limitation of Rationality by Jon Elster 9780521376082
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.81This 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... -
Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality by Jon Elster 9781107142022
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Drawing 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... -
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist by Jon Elster 9780521740074
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The 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... -
Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior by Jon Elster 9780262550369
Booksplease Price: £36.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262550369Author Jon ElsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press... -
Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints by Jon Elster 9780521662130
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £84.37Common 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... -
America before 1787: The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime by Jon Elster 9780691242675
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40An 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... -
France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime by Jon Elster 9780691149813
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of... -
Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections by Jon Elster 9781107031739
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.39Elster proposes a normative theory of collective decision making, inspired by Jeremy Bentham but not including his utilitarian philosophy. The central proposal is that in designing democratic... -
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist by Jon Elster 9780521518444
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.72The 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... -
Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective by Jon Elster 9780521839693
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93An 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...