# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-elster
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:25:18.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-elster"
name: "Jon Elster"
slug: "jon-elster"
description: "Jon Elster is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France."
tagline: "Norwegian philosopher and political theorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_Elster_12.2.10_(6100470902).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
category:
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birthDate: "1940-02-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump