The Logic of Collective ActionThis 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, Mancur Olson examines the extent to which individuals who share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Group Size and Group Behavior | 53 |
The Labor Union and Economic Freedom | 66 |
Copyright | |
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Trust: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order Francis Fukuyama No preview available - 1996 |
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| Title | The Logic of Collective Action Donald F. Koch American Philosophy Collection Issue 24 of Economic Studies Volume 124 of Harvard East Asian Series Volume 124 of Harvard Economic Studies, ISSN 0073-0505 Volume 52 of Harvard paperback Schocken paperbacks Selected Schocken Paperbacks |
| Authors | Mancur OLSON, Former Distinguished Professor of Economics University of Maryland Former Principal Investigator Mancur Olson, Jr. |
| Contributors | Business Library Johnson Foundation Collection, Harvard University. Department of economics |
| Edition | 3, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 23, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0674537505, 9780674537507 |
| Length | 186 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / General |
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