Über den Autor Jon Elster
Jon Elster is professor emeritus at Columbia University and professeur honoraire at the Collège de France, Paris. He is the author of twenty previous books, including France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime (Princeton), the first volume in the present trilogy; Reason and Rationality (Princeton); Explaining Social Behavior; Securities Against Misrule; and Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist.