Strength in Numbers

by Gunnar Trumbull

Book Overview

Many consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry's interests. And the dominant view of economic regulators (influenced by Mancur Olson's book The Logic of Collective Action, published in 1965) agrees with them. According to this view, diffuse interests like those of consumers are too difficult to organize and too weak to influence public policy, which is determined by the concentrated interests of industrial-strength players. Gunnar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066413
• ISBN13: 9780674066410
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"