Titlebook: Collective Choice; Essays in Honor of M Jac C. Heckelman (McCulloch Family Fellow),Dennis Book 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

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Collective Silence and Individual Voice: The Logic of Information Gamesd-ups or military attacks by antagonistic nations, or negative campaigns by candidates for political office; and decisions to undertake costly individual action in support of collective welfare, such as decisions to reduce pollution, restrain exploitation of common resources, or contribute to military alliances.

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Social Polarization, Political Institutions, and Country Creditworthinessl institutions and treats all forms of social polarization identically. Another literature finds that institutions, particularly the number of veto players in a country (or checks and balances), are key to credibility, but pays less attention to social characteristics such as polarization. In this paper we revisit these linkages.

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n wrote important books in the area of Collective Choice and is considered one of the founding fathers of Public Choice as a field of economics. The chapters in this volume cover three main areas of Olson‘s life work: Collective Action, Institutional Sclerosis and Market-Augmenting Government. Some

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Progress Monitoring and Control,compete for shares of the economic pie to the detriment of growth in the size of that pie. The harmful effect of interest groups on economic growth is referred to as institutional sclerosis. Olson (1982) provides evidence in favor of this theory using length of time of governmental stability as a proxy for the formation of interest groups.

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A. Colombo,P. Ausonio,L. Grossi,L. Accardood leaves each person with exactly the same amount of both the public and the private good as before the redistribution because the beneficiaries of the redistribution increase their expenditures by exactly the same amount by which the losers from the redistribution reduce theirs.

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Introduction to Shipping Markets,n of the field of economic history during Olson’s career; examines Olson’s historical methods, arguments, and findings; and brings these two together by analyzing the reception of Olson’s ideas by economic historians.