Jon Elster

Help LibraryThing improve these recommendations by rating them below. As members add ratings, they move recommendations up and down, on and off the list. Be sure to rate the recommendation, not just the author recommended. All things being equal, more than three stars sends it up, less than three stars sends it down.

1. Jon Elster

   Author of An Introduction to Karl Marx, Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality (Cambridge Paperback Library), Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints

2. John E. Roemer

   Author of Free to Lose: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy, Analytical Marxism: Studies in Marxism and Social Theory, A Future for Socialism

3. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Legitimation Crisis

4. Bernard Williams

   Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy, Moral Luck

5. Anthony Giddens

   Author of Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism

6. Peter Hedstrom

   Author of Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory (Studies in Rationality and Social Change), Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology

7. Michael Walzer

   Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century, Interpretation and Social Criticism (Tanner Lectures on Human Values)

8. G. A. Cohen

   Author of Karl Marx's Theory of History, If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?

9. Douglass C. North

   Author of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions), The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Structure and Change in Economic History

10. Thomas Nagel

    Author of The View From Nowhere, Mortal Questions, The Possibility of Altruism

11. Charles E. Larmore

    Author of The Morals of Modernity (Modern European Philosophy), Patterns of Moral Complexity, The Autonomy of Morality

12. Pierre Bourdieu

    Author of Homo Academicus, Pascalian Meditations, In Other Words: Essays Toward a Reflexive Sociology

13. Max Weber

    Author of Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set), The Methodology Of The Social Sciences, Weber: Political Writings

14. Albert O. Hirschman

    Author of The Passions and the Interests, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy

15. Theda Skocpol

    Author of States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

16. Joseph Raz

    Author of The Morality of Freedom (Clarendon Paperbacks), Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics, Practical Reasoning (Readings in Philosophy)

17. Gary King

    Author of Designing Social Inquiry, Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference, A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem

18. Jeremy Waldron

    Author of Theories of Rights (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), Law and Disagreement, Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981-1991 (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

19. Charles Tilly

    Author of Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons, Trust and Rule (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

20. Judith N. Shklar

    Author of Ordinary Vices (Belknap Press), American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values), The Faces of Injustice (The Storrs Lectures Series)