BUXTON, N.D. – Mancur Olson, one of the most famous sons in the field of economics, is buried in a prairie cemetery near Buxton. The grave of Olson, who died in 1998 at age 66, is in the Grue Cemetery ...

We can--and almost certainly do--look in horror at the events surrounding the Islamic State. However, if we adopt a purely economic view by dumping all of those higher feelings we might have about ...

Unemployment is now at 5.1 percent, yet American wages and incomes are stagnant. Why is this happening? In an insightful column in today's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson suggests an explanation ...

Basic Books, New York, 2000, xxvii + 233 pp., $28/Can$42.50 (cloth). The late Mancur Olson summed up his life's work in this short but remarkably insightful book. He applies insights drawn from his ...

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In 1965, Mancur Olson wrote a classic book called “The Logic of Collective Action,” which pointed out that large, amorphous groups are often less powerful politically than small, organized ones. He ...

BUXTON, N.D. — Like many churches, Grue Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church is filled with history. Mancur Olson, a world-renowned economist and political scientist, was a congregant here. In fact, ...

Why are some business lobbies less benign in their external effects than others? In The rise and decline of nations (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), Mancur Olson proposed that ...

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist,” wrote John Maynard Keynes. Today we’re witnessing a ...