Sour Grapes by Jon Elster
Studies in the Subversion of Rationality
An analytic exploration of how human reasoning and choice are systematically distorted by emotions, self-deception, and strategic behavior, examining mechanisms such as akrasia, rationalization, wishful thinking, and adaptive preference formation that lead people to reshape their desires to fit outcomes; drawing on psychology, economics, and philosophy, it challenges the orthodox model of stable, coherent preferences and considers how both individual strategies and institutional designs can mitigate or exploit these subversions of rationality.
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- 1983
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- British
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- English
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