Introduction: Olson's problem -- Philosophy -- The prisoners' dilemma -- Voting and other thresholds -- Negligibility -- Conclusion to part I -- History -- Rule and act utilitarianism -- Perfect competition, oligopoly and monopoly -- Conclusion to part II
Summary
A person's contribution to a large collective project (e.g. voting in a national election) often seems negligible. A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason not to contribute to such a project, but still to benefit from it. Tuck looks at this phenomenon of 'free riding'
