Ulysses unbound : studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints /
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| Author / Creator: | Elster, Jon, 1940- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4259032 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Part I. Ulysses Revisited: How and Why People Bind Themselves
- 1. Introduction: Constraint theory
- 2. Passion as a reason for self-binding
- 3. Time-inconsistency and discounting
- 4. Time-inconsistency and strategic behavior
- 5. Passion as a device for self-binding
- 6. Variations on a Russian nobleman
- 7. Addiction and precommitment
- 8. Obstacles, objections and alternatives
- Part II. Ulysses Unbound: Constitutions as Constraints
- 9. Introduction
- 10. Disanalogies with individual precommitment
- 11. The nature and structure of constitutions
- 12. Constraints on constitution-making
- 13. Two levels of constitutional precommitment
- 14. Self-binding in Athenian politics
- 15. Interest and passion in Philadelphia and Paris
- 16. Time-inconsistency, discounting and delays
- 17. Omnipotence, strategic behavior and separation of powers
- 18. Efficiency
- 19. Obstacles and objections
- 20. Ulysses unbound
- Part III. Less is More: Creativity and Constraints in the Arts
- 21. Introduction
- 22. Daydreaming: creativity without constraints
- 23. Constraints and conventions in the arts
- 24. Constraints, value, and creativity
- 25. Originality, authenticity, and creativity
- 26. The Hays code
- 27. Lucien Leuwen as an empty set
- 28. Randomization in the arts
- 29. Creativity and constraints in jazz
- 30. Obstacles and objections
- Coda
- References
