Review of Jon Elster, 'Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences'

By P. Salmon. 2009

577 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Citations in the corpus

• The dynamics of industrial symbiosis: A proposal for a conceptual framework based upon a comprehensive literature review (2011, methodology): “As a general approach we adopt the view that understanding of social phenomena is best advanced through the study of mechanisms (Elster, 2007; Gross, 2009; Hedström and Swedberg, 1998; Stinchcombe, 1991).”
• Approaches and terminology for causal analysis in land systems science (2016, background): “In particular, we might be unable to explain what triggered one causal chain instead of another one (Elster, 2007).”