Jon Elster

In the LRB Archive:

• Chinese Leaps · 25 April 1991

  • The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence
  • Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1880s to the 1980s by Jack Gray

• When Communism dissolves · 25 January 1990

• Jon Elster goes to China · 27 October 1988

• Second-Decimal Arguments · 23 May 1985

  • The Thread of Life by Richard Wollheim

• Socialism · 15 November 1984

  • The Politics of Socialism: An Essay in Political Theory by John Dunn

• Rules of the Game · 22 December 1983

  • Mémoires by Raymond Aron
  • Clausewitz: Philosopher of War by Raymond Aron, translated by Norman Stone and Christine Booker
  • Clausewitz by Michael Howard

• The Crisis in Economic Theory · 20 October 1983

  • An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change by Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter
  • A General Theory of Exploitation and Class by John Roemer

• One Hundred Years of Marxist Social Science · 16 June 1983

• Nobody at Home · 2 June 1983

  • Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism by Steven Collins
  • Le Bonheur-Liberté: Bouddhisme Profond et Modernité by Serge-Christophe Kolm

• Trespasser · 16 September 1982

  • Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond by Albert Hirschman
  • Shifting Involvements by Albert Hirschman

• Slaves and Citizens · 3 June 1982

  • Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology by M.I. Finley
  • Economy and Society in Ancient Greece by M.I. Finley
  • The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal edited by M.I. Finley

• Marxismo · 18 March 1982

  • Marx’s Politics by Alan Gilbert
  • The History of Marxism. Vol. 1: Marxism in Marx’s Day edited by Eric Hobsbawm
  • Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism by Russell Jacoby
  • Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory by John Roemer
  • Karl Marx: The Arguments of the Philosophers by Allen Wood

• Snobs · 5 November 1981

  • La Distinction: Critique Sociale du Jugement by Pierre Bourdieu

• Why bother about politics? · 5 February 1981

  • Political Obligation in its Historical Context by John Dunn

• Irrational Politics · 21 August 1980

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