Mancur Olson: 2 books
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and...
The Logic of Collective Action
Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second Printing with a New Preface and Appendix
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist,...