Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. (/ˈmænsər/; January 22, 1932 – February 19, 1998) was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University...

origin of the state, developed by American scholars Martin C. McGuire and Mancur Olson. In this theory, the State is equated with a "stationary bandit" ("stationary...

create a state". One political theory, pioneered by American economist Mancur Olson, posits that warlords can function as stationary bandits. In some African...

The collective action theory was first published by Mancur Olson in 1965. Olson argues that any group of individuals attempting to provide a public good...

Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups is a book by Mancur Olson Jr. published in 1965. It develops a theory of political science and...

dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1985) as a "ditabranda", creating controversy. Mancur Olson characterized dictators as "not like the wolf that preys on the elk,...

35-36. Mancur Olson, "The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups", (Harvard University Press, 1971), 2-3. Olson, "The Logic...

and Club Goods", in Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., pp. 347-356. Mancur Olson (1989) Collective Action. In: Eatwell J., Milgate M., Newman P. (eds)...

for:    • "market failure" by John O. Ledyard    • "bureaucracy" by Mancur Olson    • "health insurance, the economics of" by Joseph P. Newhouse    •...

people do contribute, they are rewarded, if they don't they are punished. Mancur Olson gave rise to the concept in its first instance (c.f. The Logic of Collective...