Interest associations and economic growth: A critique of mancur olson’s rise and decline of nations

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 425-465

  Unger, Brigitte ^a,b   Waarden, Frans Van ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparative economic and political institutions; Economic growth theory; Interest associations; Logic of collective action; Market failures; War and institutional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039130888     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096922999347128     Document Type: Article

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