Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality Book

	Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
I	Rationality	1
1	Introduction	1
2	Individual rationality: the thin theory	2
3	Individual rationality: the broad theory	15
4	Collective rationality: the thin theory	26
5	Collective rationality: the broad theory	33
II	States That are Essentially By-Products	43
1	Introduction	43
2	Willing what cannot be willed	44
3	Technologies for self-management	53
4	Commands	60
5	Trying to impress	66
6	Faking	71
7	Choice and intention in art	77
8	The impotence of power	86
9	Self-defeating political theories	91
10	The obsessional search for meaning	101
III	Sour Grapes	109
1	Introduction	109
2	A conceptual map	111
3	Power, freedom and welfare	125
4	Sour grapes and social choice	133
IV	Belief, Bias and Ideology	141
1	Introduction	141
2	Situation-induced beliefs	143
3	Interest-induced beliefs	148
4	The benefits of bias	157
	References	167
	Index	176