Explaining Social Behavior : More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (9781316370568) by Elster Jon

Author:Elster, Jon [Elster, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781107416413
Publisher: CambridgeUP
Published: 2015-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Bibliographical note

I discuss the relation between reason (in the sense of Chapter 4) and rationality in my inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, Raison et raisons (Paris: Fayard, 2006). For more about Weber and rationality, see my “Rationality, economy, and society,” in S. Turner (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Weber (Cambridge University Press, 2000). A classic exposition of utility theory is found in R. D. Luce and H. Raiffa, Games and Decisions (New York: Wiley, 1957). The original work by J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, 2nd edn (Princeton University Press, 1947), is still worth consulting. An outstanding exposition of rational-choice theory (and its problems) is R. Hastie and R. Dawes, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2001). I discuss the child custody example at greater length in Chapter 3 of Solomonic Judgments (Cambridge University Press, 1989). An excellent elementary presentation of Bayesian theory is R. Winkler, An Introduction to Bayesian Inference and Decision (Gainesville, FL: Probabilistic Publishing, 2003). I discuss and criticize the idea of an “innovation possibility frontier” in Explaining Technical Change (Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 104–5. The story about Thomas Thompson is taken from J. Uglow, In These Times (London: Faber and Faber, 2014), p. 223. My argument that a rational person would not take the discounting pill has been influenced by exchanges with Gary Becker and Peter Diamond; see also O. J. Skog, “Theorizing about patience formation: the necessity of conceptual distinctions,” Economics and Philosophy 17 (2001), 207–19. I take the idea of a belief trap from G. Mackie, “Ending footbinding and infibulation: a convention account,” American Sociological Review 61 (1996), 999–1017. A useful study of the importance of intelligence in preparing for war is E. R. May, Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000). I owe the information about the use of implanted disulfiram in Poland to W. Osiatynski, Alcoholism: Sin or Disease? (Warsaw: Stefan Batory Foundation, 1997), and the data about its ineffectiveness to J. Johnsen and J. Mørland, “Depot preparations of disulfiram: experimental and clinical results,” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 86 (1992), 27–30.

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