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Olsons seminal work the rise and decline of nations, published in 1982, helped explain how stable, affluent societies tend to get in trouble. As i understand it, as nations age they acquire more and more what olson calls distributional organizations, unions, trade unions, manufacturing associations, professional associations, etc. To honor olsons many contributions, the american political science association established the olson award for the best phd dissertation in political economy. Read the rise and decline of nations economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities by mancur olson available from rakuten kobo. Major political economist mancur olson presents a model new and compelling idea to elucidate these shifts in fortune and then exams his idea in the direction of proof from many durations of historic previous and many parts of the world. Economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities, yale university press, 1982. Olson firmly rejects the idea that economics can be understood without the political context of power want to read saving. Mancur olson starts with a three chapter summary of his log.
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