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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Good philosophy, little applicabilityBy JJ vd WeeleMancur Olson got famous for saying roughly the following: If there are many people that contribute to a public good, and the contribution of each has a negligible effect on the final outcome, it is rational for each person not to contribute. This normative claim is the object of attack in Tuck's book.First, Tuck distinguishes the case that Olson is looking at from two others. One is the infamoThis is a hugely interesting book that will almost certainly start a controversy. It addresses some of the widest assumptions in contemporary economic and social thought and calls them into question; and it provides a very illuminating history of the appearance of those assumptions. (Philip PettitA proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisone's dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea - and how the ancient paradox of the sori... [PDF.bi25] Free Riding Rating: 3.95 (690 Votes)
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