Methodological Individualism and Marx: Some Remarks on Jon Elster, Game Theory, and Other Things

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (4):469 - 486 (1990)
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In recent years, philosophers trained in the techniques and constrained by the style of what is known in the Anglo-American world as ‘analytic philosophy’ have in growing numbers undertaken to include within their methodological ambit the theories and insights of Karl Marx.

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Making Sense of Marx.Jon Elster - 1985 - Science and Society 49 (4):497-501.

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