Ulysses Unbound
Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints
by Jon Elster
308 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780521665612
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This volume argues that people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's study "Ulysses and the Sirens". The author aims to show how seemingly disparate examples which limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory.
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