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Mancur Olson

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Also known as Mancur Lloyd Olson, Jr

American economist (1932–1998)

Person · Open Library

Born
1932
Works
29

Top works

  • A general theory of public goods
  • The logic of collective action
  • The varieties of eurosclerosis
  • Macht und Wohlstand
  • Macht und Wohlstand

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Country
DE
Active from
1987-01-26

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Total plays
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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 32,562x

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

    · 2009 · cited 22,527x

  3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,517x

  4. Measurement of protein using bicinchoninic acid

    · 1985 · cited 16,700x

  5. The Logic of Collective Action

    · 1965 · cited 12,667x

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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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date of birth
1932-01-22
date of death
1998-02-19
name in native language
Mancur Olson, Jr.
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1932 births1998 deaths20th-century American economists20th-century American political scientists20th-century American science writersAlumni of University College, OxfordAmerican people of Norwegian descentAmerican Rhodes ScholarsAmerican social sciences writersEconomists from North DakotaHarvard University alumniNew institutional economistsNorth Dakota State University alumniPeople appearing on C-SPANPeople from Grand Forks, North DakotaPublic choice theoristsUniversity of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences peopleUniversity of Maryland, College Park faculty