Mancur Olson

Person · Open Library

Born

1932

Works

29

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1987-01-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

13

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading

   · 2009 · cited 33,739x

2. AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility

   · 2009 · cited 23,160x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,612x

4. Measurement of protein using bicinchoninic acid

   · 1985 · cited 16,781x

5. The Logic of Collective Action

   · 1965 · cited 12,764x

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Quotes

• “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 spontaneous individual optimization that drives the theories with which I began is important, but it is not enough by itself. If spontaneous Coase‐style bargains, whether through laissez-faire or political bargaining and government, eliminated socially wasteful predation and obtained the institutions that are needed for a thriving market economy, then there would not be so many grossly inefficient and poverty-stricken societies.”
• “A theory of power has long been the Holy Grail for political science, but the Grail has not been found.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Q16880716

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Grand Forks

Place of death

College Park

Occupation

sociologist

Educated at

University College, Oxford

Employer

United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Rhodes Scholarship

Field of work

economics

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