Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (Cambridge Philosophy Classics) - Hardcover

Elster, Jon

 
9781107142022: Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (Cambridge Philosophy Classics)

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This book is Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.

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Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of the Social Sciences at Columbia University and Professeur Honoraire at the Collège de France. He is the author or editor of thirty-four books on the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory, including Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections (Cambridge, 2013) and Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2015).

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Sour Grapes aims to subvert orthodox theories of rational choice through the study of forms of irrationality. Dr. Elster begins with an analysis of the notion of rationality, to provide the background and terms for the subsequent discussions, which cover irrational behaviour, irrational desires and irrational belief.

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