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Theories of Collective Action: Downs, Olson and Hirsch

By David Reisman

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1990
ISBN
0333494717, 9780333494714
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20812292 bytes)
Pages
354\355
Time added
2015-01-29 07:22:06

Description

Individuals make decisions but they do not do so in a social vacuum. The goods they buy are frequently status-symbols in a zero-sum game which some will win and some must lose. Their consumption of commodities is subject to the constraint that what one can do, all cannot. The pressure of coalitions and interest groups, the self- interest of politicians and bureaucrats may all work against a solution being found for some of the most urgent social and economic problems of our times. These problems form the centrepiece of the economic approach to social interaction that has been pioneered by Anthony Downs, Mancur Olson and Fred Hirsch. This book seeks to examine and evaluate their important theories of collective action.

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