Ulysses unbound (Studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints)
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521665612
- ISBN10 0521665612
- Type BOOK
- Pages 308
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
EssaysUlysses unbound (Studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints)
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
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 and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book, though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explored here in much more detail." "The book will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.