Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints

by Jon Elster

Book Overview

Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521665612
• ISBN13: 9780521665612
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"