TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olson, Mancur
TI  - The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation and Social Rigidities
SN  - 0-300-03079-7
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press, 
KW  - development economics
KW  - economics
KW  - history
N2  - 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 of the world
ER  -