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Elster on 'Method' in social science

Methodological Individualism (there is no alternative)

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Michael G. Heller
Feb 23, 2024
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In my opinion the new essay by Jon Elster exhibited below (which I have slightly shortened to better fit the email) presents a most important contribution to the general understanding of social science. It offers a synthesis and modification of Elster’s long held view that methodological individualism is necessarily always the essential…

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