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Jon Elster (/ ˈɛlstər /; born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France. He received his PhD in social science from the École Normale Superieure in 1972.
Aug 14, 2018 · Jon Elster is a Norwegian philosopher who teaches at Columbia University in New York and the Collège de France in Paris. After his extensive work on Leibniz, he became famous for his rigorous and mischievous critique of the fundamental principles of economic theory – self-interest and rationality.
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Jon Elster (Ph.D., University of Paris, 1972) taught in Paris, Oslo, and Chicago before coming to Columbia. His publications include Ulysses and the Sirens, Sour Grapes, Making Sense of Marx, The Cement of Society, Solomonic Judgements, Local Justice, Political Psychology, Alchemies of the Mind, Ulysses Unbound, Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective, Explaining ...
Jon Elster is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France.
Jon Elster. is a Norwegian philosopher who teaches at Columbia University in New York and the Collège de France in Paris. After his extensive work on Leibniz, he became famous for his rigorous and mischievous critique of the fundamental principles of economic theory – self-interest and rationality. Among many books, he wrote Nuts and Bolts ...
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University - Cited by 94,258 - Democratic theory - constitutions
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Rationality, Democracy, and JusticeThe Legacy of Jon ElsterThis volume advances the research agenda of one of th. most remarkable political thinkers of our time: Jon Elster. With an impressive list of contributors, it features studies in five topics in political and social theory: rationality and collective action, political and social norms ...
