Free Riding / Richard Tuck.
Tuck, Richard, author.
2022
HB846.8 ǂb T78 2008eb
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Title Free Riding / Richard Tuck.
Author Tuck, Richard, author.
ISBN 9780674033894
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033894
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2008
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (232 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674033894 doi
Call Number HB846.8 ǂb T78 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 302/.13
Summary 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 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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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

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