February 28, 2007
by David P Myatt.
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An entry in the second edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Steve Durlauf and Larry Blume.
Abstract: Mancur Olson’s logic of collective action predicts that public-good provision is most likely to fail when the size of the consumer group is large; his public goods [...]
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December 1, 2005
by Chris Wallace and David P Myatt.
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Chapter 4 of Teamwork: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, pp. 78-101, edited by Natalie Gold, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2005.
Abstract: Team formation will often involve a coordination problem. If no-one else is contributing to a team, there is little point in an agent exerting any [...]
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