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The Rise and Decline of Nations:

Economic Growth, Stagflation and Social Rigidities
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Yale university, 1982 - Business & Economics - 273 pages
The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world.

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Review: The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

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I had to read this book for school and it was one of my least-favorite books I have read in a long time. The first chapters of the book that set up his argument were okay, but the chapters on why his ... Read full review

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About the author (1982)

Mancur Olson was Distinguished Professor of economics at the University of Maryland and Founder and Principal Investigator of the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), also based at the University of Maryland.
Satu Kahkonen is Associate Director of IRIS.

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