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Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr.

Birth	:	22 Jan 1932 Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, USA
Death	:	19 Feb 1998 College Park, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA
Burial	:	Kagawong Cedars Cemetery, Kagawong, Manitoulin District, Canada
Coordinate	:	45.9089600, -82.2568300
Plot	:	56
Inscription	:	Father
Description	:	Mancur Olson, Jr. grew up in Stavanger Township and attended grade school in the one-room rural school near his farm home. He attended Buxton High School and graduated in 1950. From 1950-54, Mancur attended North Dakota State University, graduating in June 1954 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He was elected a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He then attended Harvard University where he earned his PhD degree in Economics. Mancur taught at Princeton University and at the Air Force Academy in Colorado while he served his two... Read More	Mancur Olson, Jr. grew up in Stavanger Township and attended grade school in the one-room rural school near his farm home. He attended Buxton High School and graduated in 1950. From 1950-54, Mancur attended North Dakota State University, graduating in June 1954 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He was elected a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He then attended Harvard University where he earned his PhD degree in Economics. Mancur taught at Princeton University and at the Air Force Academy in Colorado while he served his two year military obligation. In 1967, Mancur became a deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare where he worked on the development of "social indicators" and "social reporting" and on the document "Towards a Social Report" which was designated to measure social progress or retrogression. Mancur joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 1969 as a professor of Economics and is currently serving in that position. He also serves as president of the Public Choice Society, the principal learned society of students of collective decision theory and the theory of public expenditure. He is the author of two books: "The Economics of the Wartime Shortage" and the "Logic of Collective Action." The latter book has been reprinted and translated into foreign language for use in other countries. In 1959 Manucr married Alison Gilbert of Berkeley, California. They met at Oxford University. Alsion teaches history at the University of Maryland. They have three children: Ellika, Severin and Sander." From Wikipedia: Mancur Lloyd Olson, Jr. (January 22, 1932 – February 19, 1998) was a leading American economist and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the University of Maryland, College Park. Among other areas, he made contributions to institutional economics on the role of private property, taxation, public goods, collective action and contract rights in economic development. Olson focused on the logical basis of interest group membership and participation. The reigning political theories of his day granted groups an almost primordial status. Some appealed to a natural human instinct for herding, others ascribed the formation of groups that are rooted in kinship to the process of modernization. Olson offered a radically different account of the logical basis of organized collective action. In his first book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, he theorized that "only a separate and ‘selective' incentive will stimulate a rational individual in a latent group to act in a group-oriented way"; that is, only a benefit reserved strictly for group members will motivate one to join and contribute to the group. This means that individuals will act collectively to provide private goods, but not to provide public goods. In 1982, he expanded the scope of his earlier work in an attempt to explain The Rise and Decline of Nations. The idea is that small distributional coalitions tend to form over time in countries. Groups like cotton-farmers, steel-producers, and labor unions will have the incentives to form lobby groups and influence policies in their favor. These policies will tend to be protectionist and anti-technology, and will therefore hurt economic growth; but since the benefits of these policies are selective incentives concentrated amongst the few coalitions members, while the costs are diffused throughout the whole population, the "Logic" dictates that there will be little public resistance to them. Hence as time goes on, and these distributional coalitions accumulate in greater and greater numbers, the nation burdened by them will fall into economic decline. Olson's idea is cited as an influence behind the Calmfors-Driffill hypothesis of collective bargaining. In his final book, Power and Prosperity, Olson distinguished between the economic effects of different types of government, in particular, tyranny, anarchy and democracy. Olson argued that a "roving bandit" (under anarchy) has an incentive only to steal and destroy, whilst a "stationary bandit" (a tyrant) has an incentive to encourage a degree of economic success, since he will expect to be in power long enough to take a share of it. The stationary bandit thereby takes on the primordial function of government - protection of his citizens and property against roving bandits. Olson saw in the move from roving bandits to stationary bandits the seeds of civilization, paving the way for democracy, which improves incentives for good government by more closely aligning it with the wishes of the population.[1] To honor Olson's many contributions to the fields of Economics and Political Science, the American Political Science Association introduced the Olson Award to the best PhD dissertation in Political Economy.[2] Selected works • The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Harvard University Press, 1st ed. 1965, 2nd ed. 1971. Description and chapter-previews links, pp. ix-x. • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Yale University Press, 1982. Description and chapter-preview links. • Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, Oxford University Press, 2000. Description and chapter-preview links. • "The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force," (with Martin C. McGuire) in The Journal of Economic Literature, 1996, 34(1), pp. 72-96 (press +). References 1. http://www.humboldt.edu/~ee3/econ306/olson.html 2. http://www.apsanet.org/~polecon/awards.html#Past%20Winners

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Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr.'s memorial is located at: Kagawong Cedars Cemetery, Kagawong, Manitoulin District, Canada.
When did Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. death?
Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. death on 19 Feb 1998 in College Park, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA
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Latitude: 45.9089600
Longitude: -82.2568300

Family Members:

Parent

Mancur Lloyd Olson Sr.

(1903 - 1967)

Clara Lenora Fuglesten Olson

(1907 - 1981)

Siblings

Gaylord Ardell Olson

(1933 - 2015)

Children

Garth Anders Olson

(1964 - 1964)

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