What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- World War II
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
His scientific interests lie mostly in Public good, Collective action, Microeconomics, Law and economics and Dictatorship.
Mancur Olson interconnects Economic system and Autocracy in the investigation of issues within Public good.
He has included themes like Incentive and Invisible hand in his Autocracy study.
His Collective action research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Public economics and State Interest.
His studies in Law and economics integrate themes in fields like Action and Social group.
His Dictatorship research integrates issues from Financial crisis and Communism.
His most cited work include:
- The Logic of Collective Action (9815 citations)
- The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. (8621 citations)
- The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities (2334 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Mancur Olson mainly focuses on Public good, Microeconomics, Law and economics, Incentive and Political economy.
His research investigates the connection with Public good and areas like Autocracy which intersect with concerns in Dictatorship, Dictator and Market economy.
His Investment and Property rights study, which is part of a larger body of work in Microeconomics, is frequently linked to Enforcement and Measure, bridging the gap between disciplines.
His work carried out in the field of Law and economics brings together such families of science as Collective action and Public economics.
His Incentive research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Democracy and Monetary economics.
While the research belongs to areas of Political economy, Mancur Olson spends his time largely on the problem of Communism, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Poverty and Development economics.
He most often published in these fields:
- Public good (17.35%)
- Microeconomics (15.31%)
- Law and economics (12.24%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 1996-2019)?
- Enforcement (8.16%)
- Microeconomics (15.31%)
- Economy (6.12%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His scientific interests lie mostly in Enforcement, Microeconomics, Economy, Dictatorship and Political economy.
His Microeconomics study combines topics in areas such as Corporate governance and Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium.
His Economy study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Incentive, Discount points, Production and Democracy.
The various areas that he examines in his Dictatorship study include Development economics, Communism and Social group.
His studies in Coase theorem integrate themes in fields like Voluntariness and Law and economics.
His Neutrality research incorporates themes from Collective action and Public good.
Between 1996 and 2019, his most popular works were:
- Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships (902 citations)
- Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance (375 citations)
- The Swedish Experiment (263 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- World War II
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
Mancur Olson focuses on Enforcement, Dictatorship, Macroeconomics, Economy and Microeconomics.
Enforcement combines with fields such as Public good, Meaning, Coercion, Simple and Coase theorem in his investigation.
His Dictatorship research incorporates elements of Political economy, Communism, State, Development economics and Institutional economics.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Corporate governance, Government spending, Social system and Market economy in addition to Macroeconomics.
His research integrates issues of Discount points, Production, Democracy and Social group in his study of Economy.
His Microeconomics study typically links adjacent topics like Economic sector.
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