Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Olson’s Problem -- I Philosophy -- 1 The Prisoners’ Dilemma -- 2 Voting and Other Thresholds -- 3 Negligibility -- Conclusion to Part I -- II History -- 4 Rule and Act Utilitarianism -- 5 Perfect Competition, Oligopoly and Monopoly --...

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