Explaining Social Behavior
An expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed Nuts »

Alchemies Of The Mind
Examining the emotions using the full range of theoretical approaches, this text draws on history, literature, philosophy and psychology to present a complet... »

Local Justice
How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods And Necessary Burdens »

Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies
The authors of this book have developed a different approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to dem... »

Explaining Technical Change
A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science »

Strong Feelings
Emotion, Addiction and Human Behavior »

Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
Arguing that Tocqueville was fundamentally a social scientist rather than apolitical theorist Elster emphasizes Tocquevilles substantive andmethodological in... »

An Introduction to Karl Marx
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Ulysses Unbound
Studies In Rationality, Precommitment, And Constraints »

The Roundtable Talks And The Breakdown Of Communism
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