| Description |
ix, 269 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Studies in rationality and social change |
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Studies in rationality and social change.
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| Contents |
Self-deception and the voter's illusion / George A. Quattrone and Amos Tversky -- The goals and strategies of self-deception / David Pears -- Deception and division / Donald Davidson -- Deception and self-deception in Stendhal / Jon Elster -- Self-deception, akrasia and irrationality / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Beyond microeconomics: conflict among interests in multiple self as a determinant of value / George Ainslie -- The mind as a consuming organ / Thomas Schelling -- Goethe's Faust, Arrow's possibility theorem and the individual decision-taker / Ian Steedman and Ulrich Krause -- The Buddhist theory of "no-self" / Serge-Christophe Kolm |
| Notes |
"Published in collaboration with Maison des sciences de l'homme." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Decision making.
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Self (Philosophy)
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Self-deception.
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Self.
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Social psychology.
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| Author |
Elster, Jon, 1940-
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Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris, France)
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| LC no. |
85026979 |
| ISBN |
0521260337 |
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