The question addressed in this challenging new book is: What binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war? Elster analyzes two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behavior, and cooperative behavior. The book examines various aspects of collective action and bargaining from the perspective of rational choice theory and the theory of social norms. It is a fundamental assumption of the book that social norms provide an important kind of motivation for action that is irreducible to rationality.
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"...this is an excellent book. Bearing on virtually every specialty within the social sciences, it is laced with a panoply of wonderful insights into social stability and cooperation." Timur Kuran, Journal of Economic Literature
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What binds societies to keep them from disintegrating into chaos and war is addressed within this analysis of two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behavior and cooperative behavior.
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Every book of Jon Elster's is a treasure,
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This review is from: The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order (Studies in Rationality and Social Change) (Paperback)
Jon Elster is a rarity among contemporary social scientists. I guess it takes a finer mind to appreciate one of the greatest analytic talent, alive or dead, huh?
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Another Junk work for this professor to put on his resume,
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This review is from: The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order (Studies in Rationality and Social Change) (Paperback)
This is a sociology book thats written in dense, deliberately wordy, intended to used on this professors resume to impress employers who probably wouldn't read the book rather flip through it and read a paragraph or two and come to the conclusion that "oh this is technical, he must be very smart", no doubt. Having read this book I can say its junk. Its hard to read and the points the author makes are trivial. Its one of those books you'll only find stashed away in a college library, never to be used or referenced by anyone. 287 pages of paper wasted. Don't waste you're money. It's an expense waste of money.
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The problem of collective action, also referred to as the problem of free riding or the problem of voluntary provision of public goods, is deep and pervasive. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mass participationists, earnings development guarantee, convention equilibria, universal noncooperation, feasible utility pairs, private functionaries, other cooperators, differential equity, central bargaining, universal cooperation, central agreement, everybody worse, solidaristic wage policies, decentralized bargaining, private norms, solidaristic wage policy, higher functionaries, collective wage bargaining, inside options, rate busting, wage drift, successful collective action, disagreement point, iterated games, conditional cooperation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The problem of collective action, also referred to as the problem of free riding or the problem of voluntary provision of public goods, is deep and pervasive. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mass participationists, earnings development guarantee, convention equilibria, universal noncooperation, feasible utility pairs, private functionaries, other cooperators, differential equity, central bargaining, universal cooperation, central agreement, everybody worse, solidaristic wage policies, decentralized bargaining, private norms, solidaristic wage policy, higher functionaries, collective wage bargaining, inside options, rate busting, wage drift, successful collective action, disagreement point, iterated games, conditional cooperation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prisoner's Dilemma, Assurance Game, Great Depression, Rolls Royce, Second World War, James Coleman New!
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