Oh, I like Elster a lot. It's just that he's no scholar in the sense that
Kolakowski is. Elster has a new book out on self-binding, the latest
installment in what has been his best work in any case. I haven't read it,
but it is called Ulysses Unbound. --jks
>
>>Elster can't lay a hand on Kolokowski as a scholar or an interpreter of
>>Marx: K's readings are always possible, while Elsters' are often just
>>obtuse or perverse. On the other side, Elster isn't anti-Marxist; he
>>wasn't trying to construct a tombstone, but to do develop and reconstitute
>>the tradition. --jks
>
>Elster does some good social science (game theory, traditions, etc.), as
>long as he stays away from interpreting Marx. BTW, it's interesting that he
>was cited right at the start of Oliver Williamson's little essay on the New
>Institutional Economics in the recent JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE.
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
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