{"product_id":"free-riding-9780674028340","title":"Free Riding","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a hugely interesting book that will almost certainly start a controversy. It addresses some of the widest assumptions in contemporary economic and social thought and calls them into question; and it provides a very illuminating history of the appearance of those assumptions. -- Philip Pettit, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003eOriginal, full of good ideas and insights, Richard Tuck's \u003ci\u003eFree Riding\u003c\/i\u003e could initiate an important debate about the least human of the human sciences. -- John Ferejohn, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Preface \t* Introduction: Olson's Problem  \tPart I: Philosophy \t* the Prisoners' Dilemma \t* Voting and Other Thresholds \t* Negligibility \tConclusion to Part I \tPart II: History \t* Rule-and Act-Utilitarianism \t* Perfect Competition, Oligopoly and Monopoly \tConclusion to Part II  \t* Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359090082135,"sku":"9780674028340","price":41.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674028340.jpg?v=1754123540","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/free-riding-9780674028340","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}