Selected Writings
- Leibniz et la formation de l'esprit capitaliste (Paris, 1975) ISBN 2-7007-0018-X
- Leibniz and the development of economic rationality (Oslo, 1975)
- Logic and Society (New York, 1978)
- Ulysses and the Sirens (Cambridge, 1979)
- Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (Cambridge, 1983)
- Explaining Technical Change : a Case Study in the Philosophy of Science (Oslo, 1983)
- Making Sense of Marx (Cambridge, 1985)
- An Introduction to Karl Marx (Cambridge, 1986)
- The Cement of Society: A study of social order (Cambridge, 1989)
- Solomonic Judgments: Studies in the limitation of rationality (Cambridge, 1989)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (Cambridge, UK, 1989)
- Local Justice: How institutions allocate scarce goods and necessary burdens (Russell Sage, 1992)
- Political Psychology (Cambridge, 1993)
- Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior The Jean Nicod Lectures. (MIT Press, 1999)
- Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions (Cambridge, 1999)
- Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000)
- Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, 2004)
- Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (Cambridge, 2007)
- Reason and Rationality (Princeton University Press, 2009)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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