Free Riding / / Richard Tuck.

A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisone's dil...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Olson's Problem
  • I Philosophy
  • 1 The Prisoners' Dilemma
  • 2 Voting and Other Thresholds
  • 3 Negligibility
  • Conclusion to Part I
  • II History
  • 4 Rule and Act Utilitarianism
  • 5 Perfect Competition, Oligopoly and Monopoly
  • Conclusion to Part II
  • Index