Free Riding

by Richard Tuck

Book Overview

One individual's contribution to a large collective project--such as voting in a national election or contributing to a public television fund-raising campaign--often seems negligible. A striking proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.

But Richard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674028341
• ISBN13: 9780674028340
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"