Free Riding
Published on 1. July 2009
232 pages
978-0-674-03389-4 (ISBN)
Description
Richard Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner's dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea-and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03389-4 (9780674033894)
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Person
Richard Tuck is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Content
Contents Preface Introduction: Olson?s Problem Part I. Philosophy 1. the Prisoners? Dilemma 2. Voting and Other Thresholds 3. Negligibility Conclusion to Part I Part II. History 4. Rule- and Act-Utilitarianism 5. Perfect Competition, Oligopoly and Monopoly Conclusion to Part II Index
