Sour Grapes - Books

Books

  • Sour Grapes (book), a book of poems by William Carlos Williams
  • Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (Cambridge, 1983), a book by Jon Elster describing the phenomenon of adaptive preference formation

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