%0 Book %1 Olson:1982 %A Olson, Mancur %B The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities %C New Haven, CT %D 1982 %I Yale University Press %K class development economics labor %P xi, 273 %T The rise and decline of nations: Economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities %X 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 on the world.

@book{Olson:1982, abstract = {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 on the world.}, added-at = {2010-03-02T17:25:53.000+0100}, address = {New Haven, CT}, author = {Olson, Mancur}, bdsk-url-1 = {http://books.google.com/books?id=vKxxtjJz--wC&dq=The+rise+and+decline+of+nations:+Economic+growth,+stagflation,+and+social+rigidities&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=Krr1SvzwONHS8QbItajzCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAw}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2505c3968b9eecac84d1a07668b069cc3/jrennstich}, booktitle = {The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities}, date-modified = {2010-02-28 21:15:58 -0500}, interhash = {2221ec00a9e39752d8334d6b054ea0a6}, intrahash = {505c3968b9eecac84d1a07668b069cc3}, keywords = {class development economics labor}, pages = {xi, 273}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, timestamp = {2010-03-08T19:38:01.000+0100}, title = {The rise and decline of nations: Economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities}, year = 1982 }