The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, With a New Preface and AppendixThis 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 the individuals that share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort. |
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Contents
A Theory of Groups and Organizations | 5 |
B Public goods and large groups | 9 |
C The traditional theory of groups | 16 |
D Small groups | 22 |
E Exclusive and inclusive groups | 36 |
F A taxonomy of groups | 43 |
Group Size and Group Behavior | 53 |
B Problems of the traditional theories | 57 |
Orthodox Theories of Pressure Groups | 111 |
B Institutional economics and the pressure group John R Commons | 114 |
C Modern theories of pressure groups Bentley Truman Latham | 117 |
D The logic of group theory | 125 |
The ByProduct and Special Interest Theories | 132 |
B Labor lobbies | 135 |
C Professional lobbies | 137 |
D The special interest theory and business lobbies | 141 |
C Social incentives and rational behavior | 60 |
The Labor Union and Economic Freedom | 66 |
B Laborunion growth in theory and practice | 76 |
C The closed shop and economic freedom in the latent group | 88 |
D Government intervention and economic freedom in the latent gorup | 91 |
Orthodox Theories of State and Class | 98 |
B The Marxian theory of state and class | 102 |
C The logic of the Marxian theory | 105 |