France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 1789
评论埃尔斯特的著作，认为理解法国大革命本质应依靠政治哲学而非行为工具，并提出结合政治哲学、宏观经济动态和复杂性经济学的新分析框架。
In this essay on Elster’s (2020) book, I expose my concerns about the ability of behavioral tools to correctly address the transition phase between the absolutist regime and the democratic institutions inherited from the French Revolution. Rehabilitating the forgotten analyses of contemporary political philosophers Quinet, de Sade, and Leroux, I defend the view that a correct understanding of the French Revolution’s essence lies in its political philosophical dimension, not in the supposed psychological traits of its actors. I suggest a renewed way to apprehend and model revolutions, combining three levels of analysis: political philosophy, macroeconomic dynamics, and complexity economics.