Mancur Olson's The Rise and Decline of Nations shows how small groups can undermine broader prosperity.
24 months ago

As formalized by Mancur Olson in his seminal 1971 book The Logic of Collective Action, smaller social groups are easier to organize than larger ones.
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This is from the newly published biography of Mancur Olson in David R. Henderson, ed. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
19 months ago

Professor George Stigler, the Nobel Laureate (1982) who in some ways invented the idea of “regulatory capture,” and Professor Mancur Olson,...
103 months ago

Mancur Olson's The Rise and Decline of Nations is one of my favorite books and a classic of public choice. Olson may well have won the Nobel prize had he not...
34 months ago

BUXTON, N.D. – Mancur Olson, one of the most famous sons in the field of economics, is buried in a prairie cemetery near Buxton.
43 months ago

In 1982, the economist Mancur Olson set out to explain a paradox. West Germany and Japan endured widespread devastation during World War II,...
39 months ago

My guest is Jonathan Rauch, the author of the classic book, Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (Times Books, 1994).
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Between August and October 1943 American warplanes repeatedly bombed Schweinfurt, in southern Germany. The Bavarian town did not host army...
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China now has the second-largest number of Fortune Global 500 companies in the world. Most of the Chinese companies on the list are state-owned enterp.
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