The logic of collective action
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public goods and the theory of groups (Google eBook)
Harvard University Press, 1971 - Psychology - 186 pages
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User Review - Dienekes - Goodreads
I read this in graduate school and still remember the lessons vividly today. The subtitle could have been: "The Tyranny of the Minority." Olson identifies a fundamental flaw in representative ... Read full review
Review: The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
User Review - Ajay Menon - Goodreads
I'm told that this is the driest book Olson wrote, I'm really hoping that's true, because I have Rise and Decline of Nations as well as Power & Prosperity waiting for me in the next couple of weeks. It was informative though, and he does explain his theory well. Read full review
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Page 146 - Our inquiries among employers revealed that the dissatisfaction expressed in the resolutions of the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States...
Page 2 - Indeed, unless the number of individuals in a group is quite small, or unless there is coercion or some other special device to make individuals act in their common interest, rational, self-interested individuals will not act to achieve their common or group interests.
Page 5 - James G. March and Herbert A. Simon, Organizations (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1958). Richard M. Cyert and James G. March, A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963).
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Page 33 - There is no quality in human nature, which causes more fatal errors in our conduct, than that which leads us to prefer whatever is present to the distant and remote, and makes us desire objects more according to their situation than their intrinsic value.
Page 36 - The larger a group is, the farther it will fall short of obtaining an optimal supply of any collective good, and the less likely that it will act to obtain even a minimal amount . of such a good. In short, the larger the group, the less it will further \ its common interests.
Page 48 - For these reasons, the larger the group, the farther it will fall short of providing an optimal supply of a collective good...
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Macur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action (Chapters 1 & 2)
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Olson lays out his general theory in chapter 1, where he discusses individual rationality, selective incentives, and so on. Privileged groups (members of ...
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