Professor Mancur Olson (1932 - February 19, 1998) was a leading social scientist. Among other areas, he made contributions to institutional economics on the role of property, taxation, public goods and contract rights in economic development.

Selected Works

• Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Harvard University Press, 1971
• The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Yale University Press, 1984
• Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, Oxford University Press, 2000
• "The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force," (with Martin C. McGuire) in The Journal of Economic Literature (March 1996).

External link

• http://www.iris.umd.edu/aboutiris/olson.asp