Ulysses And The Sirens by Jon Elster
Studies in Rationality and Irrationality
A provocative collection of analytic essays that uses tools from economics, philosophy, and game theory to explain behaviors often labeled irrational—weakness of will, addiction, emotion-driven choices, self-deception—showing how they can arise from strategic considerations, preference formation, and constraints on choice. Centering on the motif of binding oneself to avoid temptation, it explores precommitment devices, mechanisms of self-control, and the interface between internal psychological forces and external incentives, arguing that many apparent failures of reason are systematic and intelligible within a refined rational-choice framework.
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- 1979
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