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Overview

Mancur Olson was affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their academic work primarily focused on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. The subfields of their research included Strategy and Management and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics covered in their research were International Arbitration and Investment Law and Economic theories and models.

  • Richard Swedberg
  • Gary S. Becker
  • James S. Coleman
  • George A. Akerlof
  • Harrison C. White

Mancur Olson's book publications were issued by notable academic presses. They published two editions of The Rise and Decline of Nations in 2022 through Yale University Press. Additionally, they authored Economics and Sociology, published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Their contributions are reflected in their work involving economic modeling and the intersection of economics with sociological factors. The collaboration with frequent co-authors spanned prominent scholars such as Richard Swedberg, Gary S. Becker, James S. Coleman, George A. Akerlof, and Harrison C. White.

Best Publications

  • The Logic of Collective Action

    Robert T. Golembiewski;Mancur Olson

  • The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.

    Sidney C. Sufrin;Mancur Olson

  • Dictatorship, Democracy and Development

    Mancur Olson

  • Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development.

    Mancur Olson

  • The Rise and Decline of Nations

    W. Beckerman;Mancur Olson

  • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

    William Diebold;Mancur Olson

  • The logic of collective action : public goods and the theory of groups

    Mancur Olson

  • The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.

    Charles B. Perrow;Mancur Olson

  • An economic theory of alliances

    Mancur Olson;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships

    Mancur Olson

  • The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force

    Martin C. McGuire;Mancur L. Olson

  • Power And Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist And Capitalist Dictatorships

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  • Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance

    Christopher Clague;Philip Keefer;Stephen Knack;Mancur Olson

  • Perspectives on positive political economy

    James E. Alt;Kenneth A. Shepsle

  • Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies

    Christopher Clague;Philip Keefer;Stephen Knack;Mancur Olson

  • Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies

    Christopher Clague;Philip Keefer;Stephen Knack;Mancur Olson

  • Rapid Growth as a Destabilizing Force

    Mancur Olson

  • Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor

    Mancur Olson

  • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

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  • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

    Mancur Olson

  • Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich

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  • The Swedish Experiment

    Anders Bjork;Nils Elvander;Ulf Jakobsson;Magnus Henrekson

  • Does voluntary participation undermine the Coase Theorem

    Avinash Dixit;Mancur Olson

  • Positive Time Preference

    Mancur Olson;Martin J. Bailey

  • Olson Mancur, The rise and decline of nations : economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities.

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  • The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule

    Mancur Olson;Martin Mcguire

  • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities.

    John Othick;Mancur Olson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Zeckhauser
Richard J. Zeckhauser Harvard University
Philip Keefer
Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank
Stephen Knack
Stephen Knack World Bank
Avinash Dixit
Avinash Dixit Princeton University
James Tobin
James Tobin Yale University
Dennis Coates
Dennis Coates University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
Lars E.O. Svensson
Lars E.O. Svensson Stockholm School of Economics

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