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Ezra and Alex discussed the classic publicchoice work, describing it as an unusual but useful book that examines how specialinterest groups cause societies to stagnate.
But recently, he's been bugging me to read a classic book in public choice economics called The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mansur Olson.
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Ezra and Alex discussed the classic publicchoice work, describing it as an unusual but useful book that examines how specialinterest groups cause societies to stagnate.
But recently, he's been bugging me to read a classic book in public choice economics called The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mansur Olson.
you wrote after I was tweeting about this that I should read Mansur Olsen's The Rise and Decline of Nations. And I did.
it's a very interesting, very unusual book, I think, but I think it's actually a useful one to talk about.
he made a couple of points about special interest groups ... that's what Mansur Olsen thought ... the rise and decline of nations argument.
the book gets at why advanced societies become sorotic, why they become incapable of building.