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Free Riding / Richard Tuck.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674033894
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302/.13
LOC classification:
  • HB846.8 ǂb T78 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674033894

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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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