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Jon Elster ، born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory. He is also a notable proponent of analytical Marxism, and a critic of neoclassical economics and public choice theory, largely on behavioral and psychological grounds. In 2016, he was awarded the 22nd Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for his contributions to political science.
Rationality and the Emotions
1998
2009
The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime
2023
1986
Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective
2004
1998
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
1989
The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime
2020
A Reader
1986
1985
1986
2006
Juries, Assemblies, Elections
2013
Studies in the Limitation of Rationality
1989
Studies in the Subversion of Rationality
1983
Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior
1999
A Survey of Social Order
1989
Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints
2000
Studies in Rationality and Irrationality
1979