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Solomonic judgements : studies in the limitations of rationality

Title: Solomonic judgements : studies in the limitations of rationality / Jon Elster.
Author: Elster, Jon, 1940-
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 1989.

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Description

ix, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

When Rationality Fails -- Rational action -- Indeterminacy -- Irrationality -- Alternatives to rationality -- Taming Chance: Randomization in Individual and Social Decisions -- Varieties of randomness -- Randomization in individual decisions -- Social lotteries: an overview -- Scarce goods and necessary burdens -- Political lotteries -- Legal lotteries -- Why lotteries? -- Solomonic Judgements: Against the Best Interests of the Child -- Towards the best interests of the child -- Against the best interests of the child -- Circumventing the best interests of the child -- Alternatives to the best interests of the child -- The Possibility of Rational Politics -- Individual and social choice -- Political indeterminacy -- Political irrationality -- Alternatives to rationalism in politics.

ISBN

052137457X
9780521374576
0521376084
9780521376082
273510298X
9782735102983
2735102971
9782735102976
0521371783 (canceled/invalid)
052137815X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

88033997

OCLC

ocm18833522
18833522
SCSB-1734227

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Princeton University Library