Jon Elster Books
The Roundtable Talks and the Breakdown of Communism
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In 1989 and 1990; Eastern European Communist regimes and opposition groups conducted a series of roundtable talks to peacefully negotiate the abolition of authoritarian rule and the transition to d...
Read MoreStrong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior
By Jon Elster
The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster's study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavi...
Read MoreStrong Feelings
By Jon Elster
Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and ad...
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