Jon Elster Quotes

• Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

  Jon Elster

  Knowing, May, Able

  Jon Elster (2015). “Explaining Social Behavior”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

  Jon Elster

  Men, Goal, Social

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• Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

  Jon Elster

  Heart, Progress, Reduction

  Jon Elster (1989). “Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

  Jon Elster

  Science, Action, Mathematics

  Jon Elster (1999). “Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

  Jon Elster

  Order, Problem, Sometimes

  Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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