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Explaining Social Behavior

More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

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This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources-psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models.

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Explaining Social Behavior, Jon Elster

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2007
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Titul
Explaining Social Behavior
Podtitul
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Jazyk
anglicky
Rok vydania
2007
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
484
ISBN10
0521777445
ISBN13
9780521777445
Série
Hodnotenie
4,05 z 5
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This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources-psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models.