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  • Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

    Jon Elster (1989). “Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
  • The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

    Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press
  • Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

    Knowing   May   Able  
    Jon Elster (2015). “Explaining Social Behavior”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
  • The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

    Men   Goal   Social  
  • 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 (1999). “Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions”, p.65, Cambridge University Press
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