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Ulysses Unbound

Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints
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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.
Release date NZ
April 13th, 2000
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Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
4 Tables, unspecified; 5 Line drawings, unspecified
Pages
322
Dimensions
157x236x26
ISBN-13
9780521662130
Product ID
1979243

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