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Mancur Lloyd Olson, Jr. (January 22, 1932 – February 19, 1998) was an American economist and social scientist.

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A theory of power has long been the Holy Grail for political science, but the Grail has not been found.

Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships (2000)

No analysis of the limits of economic freedom or the uses of coercion by government, labor unions, or organizations of any kind can do justice to the complexity of the subject without taking account of the distinction between collective and noncollective goods.

The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (1965)

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