<P> The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups is a book by Mancur Olson, Jr. published in 1965 . It develops a theory of political science and economics of concentrated benefits versus diffuse costs . Its central argument is that concentrated minor interests will be overrepresented and diffuse majority interests trumped, due to a free - rider problem that is stronger when a group becomes larger . </P> <P> The book challenged accepted wisdom in Olson's day that: </P>

Summary of olson's logic of collective action
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