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Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints

By Jon Elster

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521662133, 9780521662130
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16680691 bytes)
Pages
322\321
Time added
2017-09-11 12:55:11
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Description

This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples that limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.

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