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

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

Mancur Olson, 66, a University of Maryland economics professor who was known for his theories on how special interest groups can impede economic growth, died...
321 months ago

This is from the newly published biography of Mancur Olson in David R. Henderson, ed. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
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In April 2020, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a widely read essay titled “It's Time to Build.
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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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In 1982, the economist Mancur Olson set out to explain a paradox. West Germany and Japan endured widespread devastation during World War II,...
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Mancur Olson once argued that Germany and Japan grew rapidly after WWII largely because a great deal of bureaucratic deadwood was removed by the war.
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Currently there are more than 100 such awards honoring dissertations, papers, articles, books and career achievement.
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