Article: A NOT-SO-DISMAL SCIENCE: A BROADER VIEW OF ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES.(Review)

Article: Mancur Olson Dies at 66; Teacher, Author
The Washington Post;  February 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Mancur Olson, 66, a University of Maryland economics professor who was known for ... with a range of academic disciplines, who was convinced that "the dismal science can produce ideas for the common good." In his first major book ...

Article: Mancur Olson. (American economist and author of ...
The Economist (US);  March 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... 1950s, when travelling in Europe, Mancur Olson was puzzled why West Germany was blossoming ... Olson made them so. From the prairies Mancur Olson was born in the farming state of North ... all his life. "That is my advice to Mancur Olson, and that is my advice to

Article: Remembering Mancur Olson.(Obituary)
Southern Economic Journal;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Mancur Olson, professor of Economics at the University ... realized that this statement captured Mancur Olson's approach to economics: If we simply ... It was to this formidable task that Mancur Olson devoted his intellectual life. Mancur ...

Article: Obituary: Professor Mancur Olson
The Independent - London;  March 2, 1998 ;     700+ words ...MANCUR OLSON was one of the most distinguished economists ... badly as they emerge from autocracy. Mancur Olson was a farm boy from North Dakota, who ... obvious now. But that is only because Mancur Olson made it so. His analysis of lobbying ...

Article: Mancur Olson. (political scientist) (Obituary)
PS: Political Science & Politics;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...The sudden passing of Mancur Olson on February 19, 1998, at the age of 66, was a blow to his many colleagues, admirers, and friends. Rarely, if ever, has ...

Article: A not-so-dismal science: A aroader view of ...
West European Politics;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and ... indicate that, far from being the dismal science Thomas Carlyle once called it ... a running dialogue with the late Mancur Olson's work. Olson's own two chapters ...

Article: Thomas Carlyle, 'the dismal science', and the ...
History of Economics Review;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... description of political economy as the 'dismal science' is well known. Several of the classical ... description of political economy as the 'dismal science' to its origins in an article on ... order to place Carlyle's epithet of 'dismal science' clearly within its original context ...