Wei wrote "Reading Jonathan Rauch's _Government's End: Why Washington
Stopped
Working_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891620495) made me
wonder how special-interest lobbies solved the public goods problem."
See Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action and The Rise and Fall
of Nations, both of which are about precisely this question and the
implications of the answer.
Alex
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Dr. Alexander Tabarrok
Vice President and Director of Research
The Independent Institute
100 Swan Way
Oakland, CA, 94621-1428
Tel. 510-632-1366, FAX: 510-568-6040
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