Mancur Olson
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American economist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most influential contributions were in institutional economics, and in the role which private property, taxation, public goods, collective action, and contract rights play in economic development.
Mancur Olson's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Logic of Collective Action (1965) (9222)
- The Rise and Decline of Nations (1983) (3537)
- Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development (1993) (3361)
- The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. (1983) (3128)
- The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force (1996) (1001)
- An economic theory of alliances (1966) (833)
- Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor (1996) (745)
- Power And Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist And Capitalist Dictatorships (1999) (724)
- Property and contract rights in autocracies and democracies (1996) (562)
- Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance (1999) (498)
- Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich (2000) (480)
- Rapid Growth as a Destabilizing Force (1963) (430)
- The Economics of Autoc-racy and Majority Rule (1996) (421)
- Governance and Growth: A Simple Hypothesis Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Productivity Growth (2000) (354)
- Does Voluntary Participation Undermine the Coase Theorem (2000) (245)
- Positive Time Preference (1981) (216)
- Autocracy, Democracy, and Prosperity (1991) (126)
- A Theory of the Incentives Facing Political Organizations (1986) (116)
- The devolution of centrally planned economies (1991) (106)
- Space, Agriculture, and Organization (1985) (97)
- The Productivity Slowdown, The Oil Shocks, and the Real Cycle (1988) (91)
- Decision Making vs. Policy Making: Toward an Antidote for Technocracy@@@The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups@@@The Policy-Making Process@@@Public Policymaking Reexamined@@@The Study of Policy Formation (1970) (85)
- Toward a More General Theory of Governmental Structure (1986) (77)
- A Not-so-dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies (2000) (75)
- The South Will Fall Again: The South as Leader and Laggard in Economic Growth (1983) (66)
- Why the Transition from Communism Is So Difficult (1995) (65)
- The Marginal Utility of Income Does not Increase: Borrowing, Lending, and Friedman-Savage Gambles (1980) (57)
- Increasing the Incentives for International Cooperation (1971) (54)
- Contract Intensive Money (1999) (47)
- The Efficient Production of External Economies (1970) (47)
- Economic growth in Europe since 1945: The varieties of Eurosclerosis: the rise and decline of nations since 1982 (1996) (44)
- The exploitation and subsidization of agriculture in developing and developed countries (1985) (41)
- A New Approach to the Economics of Health Care. (1982) (38)
- Collective choice : essays in honor of Mancur Olson (2003) (38)
- A Not-so-dismal Science (2000) (36)
- The Economics of the Wartime Shortage. (1964) (29)
- Stagflation and the Political Economy of the Decline in Productivity (1982) (28)
- The Political Biases of Keynesian Economics (1978) (27)
- A political theory of regulation with some observations on railway abandonments (1982) (27)
- Introduction: The Broader View (2000) (26)
- Collective Goods, Comparative Advantage, and Alliance Efficiency (1967) (25)
- The United Kingdom and the world market in wheat and other primary products, 1885-1914 (1974) (24)
- Evaluating Performance in the Public Sector (1973) (23)
- Economic Nationalism and Economic Progress (1987) (23)
- An Appreciation of the Tests and Criticisms (1986) (21)
- Free Trade in “CORN”: A Statistical Study of the Prices and Production of Wheat in Great Britain from 1873 To 1914 (1959) (21)
- Mankind at the Turning Point: The Second Report to the Club of Rome.@@@The No-Growth Society. (1977) (20)
- Diseconomies of Scale and Development (1987) (20)
- Do Lawyers Impair Economic Growth? (1992) (18)
- Social indicators and social accounts (1969) (17)
- BEYOND KEYNESIANISM AND MONETARISM (1984) (15)
- Australia in the Perspective of the Rise and Decline of Nations (1984) (14)
- An Analytic Framework for Social Reporting and Policy Analysis (1970) (14)
- Why Poor Economic Policies Must Promote Corruption: Lessons from the East for All Countries (1998) (13)
- Microeconomic incentives and macroeconomic decline (1984) (13)
- AGRICULTURAL EXPLOITATION AND SUBSIDIZATION: There Is An Explanation (1990) (13)
- The Restoration of Pure Monopoly and the Concept of the Industry (1962) (12)
- Does voluntary participation undermine the Coase (2000) (11)
- A Microeconomic Approach to Macroeconomic Policy (1989) (10)
- Perspectives on Positive Political Economy: Toward a unified view of economics and the other social sciences (1990) (10)
- Mancur Olson on the Key to Economic Development (1998) (10)
- Environmental Indivisibilities and Information Costs: Fanaticism, Agnosticism, and Intellectual Progress (1982) (9)
- On the Priority of Public Problems (1974) (8)
- The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule - eScholarship (1996) (7)
- Some Social and Political Implications of Economic Development (1965) (7)
- ECONOMIC GROWTH, SUSTAINABILITY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT (1991) (6)
- A New Institutional Approach to Economic Development (2002) (6)
- Two Mathematicians' Perspectives on Standards: Interviews With Judith Roitman and Alfred Manaster (2001) (5)
- Official Liability and Its Less Legalistic Alternatives (1978) (5)
- Towards a Mature Social Science (1983) (4)
- The political economy of price controls : the Swedish experience 1970-1987 (1990) (4)
- The Evolution of Cooperation.Robert Axelrod (1986) (3)
- COMMUNITY VALUES, SOCIAL MEASUREMENT, AND TRANSPORTATION POLICY (1969) (3)
- Why Nations Rise and Fall (1984) (3)
- Remin1nscences of Dudley Dillard (1995) (2)
- Changing Unemployment Rates in Europe and the USA: Institutional Structure and Regional Variation (1990) (2)
- The Lives and Times of the Great Composers (2003) (2)
- The Demand for and Supply of Inflation: Comment (1975) (2)
- Francis Castles' `Democratic Politics...' (1991) (2)
- Economy, logic, and action (1990) (2)
- The Case for Liberalizing Markets (1997) (1)
- With Color and Texture, With Feeling and Life (1983) (1)
- Agriculture and the Depressed Areas (1964) (1)
- An Appreciation: Reply to Booth, Melling, and Dartmann (1997) (1)
- Regional synecdoche : New England literary characters in the national landscape, 1880-1910 (1999) (1)
- British Economic Decline (1984) (1)
- Two women giving a workshop at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- Two women talking in library at Church of the Good Samaritan (2007) (0)
- Dr. Miriam Johnson giving lecture at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- Conference attendees looking at exhibit of books (2007) (0)
- Two women looking at books in the Good Samaritan library (2007) (0)
- State Skill Standards: Digital Video & Broadcast Production. (2007) (0)
- Library at the Church of the Good Samaritan (2007) (0)
- Guests attending a Cindy Long acre workshop (2007) (0)
- Woman attending conference looking over books (2007) (0)
- A painting at Or Shalom Synagogue (2007) (0)
- Conference guests looking at books (2007) (0)
- Dr. Miriam Johnson giving a workshop (2007) (0)
- Vera Hunter and Jim Anderson (2007) (0)
- Woman looking through books on a shelf (2007) (0)
- Conference guests getting refreshments (2007) (0)
- Alrene Hall and Jane Hope speaking to attendees (2007) (0)
- Parallel Lives: Charles Ives and Aaron Copland: A Listener's Guide (2006) (0)
- Patients can bid farewell to 'Cadillac' healthcare. Interview by Flora Taylor. (1993) (0)
- Esther Bierbaum giving workshop at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- Betsy Swan giving workshop at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- [Franck Leprodhomme, Brodart Co. Instructor] (2007) (0)
- Patients can bid farewell to 'Cadillac' healthcare. (1993) (0)
- Judson Press exhibit at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- Exhibitors set up for CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- [Franck Leprodhomme's workshop on basic book care] (2007) (0)
- Kim Simmons giving lecture at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- Do Lawyers Impair Economic Growth?: [Commentary] (1992) (0)
- AAAS officers, staff, committees, and representatives for 1980. (1980) (0)
- DIsEcON 0 MIEs OF SCALE AND DEVELOPMENT (2003) (0)
- Warr Neutrality and the Natural Egalitarianism of Voluntary Public Good Provision (2003) (0)
- American Economic Association Corruption and Development : A Review of Issues (2007) (0)
- A Collective-Choice and Microeconomics Approach to Macroeconomics: From Sticky Prices and Lags to Incentives (1991) (0)
- The Economics of the Wartime Shortage (1966) (0)
- Cost-Benefit Analysis, Statistical Decision Theory, and Environmental Policy (1976) (0)
- THE FIRST BLESSING OF THE INVISIBLE HAND (0)
- No-Growth (the) Society (1977) (0)
- Discussion of Price paper (1964) (0)
- New dimensions in regional integration: Discussion (1993) (0)
- “Incentives-Based” Stabilization Policies and the Evolution of the Macroeconomic Problem (1981) (0)
- Kim Simmons giving workshop at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- Conference guests attending Cindy Longacre workshop (2007) (0)
- CSLA conference tour in library at Westminster Prebyterian (2007) (0)
- Alrene Hall and Jane Hope workshop (2007) (0)
- Exhibitor looking at books at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
- Conference attendees at Library at Or Shalom Synagogue (2007) (0)
- Islamic lecture at CSLA conference (2007) (0)
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