Libros de Jon Elster

De Los Derechos Humanos (ne)

• 208 páginas
• Se recogen en este tomo las ponencias de siete prestigiosos académicos en las conferencias Oxford Amnesty en la primavera de 1993, en torno al problema de los derechos humanos universales. Son tantas las perspectivas desde las que se enfoca el prob...

Una Introducción A Karl Marx

• 224 páginas

Rendición De Cuentas

• 240 páginas
• Objeto de creciente interés para la ciencia política, la teoría del derecho y la sociología, así como para los filósofos morales y los historiadores, la justicia transicional es el conjunto de procesos interrelaci...

Ulises Desatado

• 352 páginas
• Parece de sentido común considerar que tener más opciones siempre es preferible a tener menos, y que es mejor saber más que saber menos. Sin embargo, Elster demuestra en este libro que, muy a menudo, el sentido común falla....

Explaining Technical Change

France Before 1789: The Unraveling Of An Absolutist Regime

• 280 páginas
• A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political..

Razon Y Racionalidad

• 72 páginas
• Jon Elster, uno de los filósofos políticos más importantes del mundo, se destaca por sus reflexiones sobre la razón y la racionalidad y el papel de ambas en la política y en la vida pública. Este breve libro signi...

Sour Grapes

• Drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, decision-theory, economics, psychology, history

Sour Grapes

• 180 páginas
• Drawing 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 his acclaimed earlier book, Ulysses and the Sirens....

Institutional Design In Post-communist Societies

• 364 páginas
• This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy. Studies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia provide detailed empirical data concer...

Foundations Of Social Choice Theory

• 250 páginas
• The 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 for a series of impossibility theorems, of which the...

Explaining Social Behavior

• In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social..

Explaining Social Behavior

• 516 páginas
• In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised throughout, the book offers an overview of key explanatory mechani...

Secrecy And Publicity In Votes And Debates

Securities Against Misrule

• This book proposes a normative theory of collective decision making, inspired by Jeremy Bentham but

Securities Against Misrule

• 324 páginas
• This book 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 institutions one should reduce as much as possible the impac...

Transitional Justice: Nomos Li

• 367 páginas
• Criminal. tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are. the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help. societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to. peace,...

Alexis De Tocqueville, The First Social Scientist

• The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost..

Ulysses Unbound

• This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their..

Tocqueville: The Ancien Rã©gime And The French Revolution

• 320 páginas
• This new 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 both a Tocqueville scholar and an award-winning...