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Mancur Olson

Active 1963–2017

28
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60,831
Citations
27
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Citations

Citations per year for Mancur Olson1965: 1 citations1967: 3 citations1969: 7 citations1970: 4 citations1971: 4 citations1972: 1 citations1973: 4 citations1974: 8 citations1975: 9 citations1976: 10 citations1977: 8 citations1978: 6 citations1979: 8 citations1980: 16 citations1981: 10 citations1982: 9 citations1983: 19 citations1984: 33 citations1985: 39 citations1986: 30 citations1987: 19 citations1988: 28 citations1989: 25 citations1990: 34 citations1991: 37 citations1992: 42 citations1993: 49 citations1994: 50 citations1995: 70 citations1996: 78 citations1997: 64 citations1998: 97 citations1999: 124 citations2000: 149 citations2001: 132 citations2002: 142 citations2003: 212 citations2004: 179 citations2005: 186 citations2006: 154 citations2007: 174 citations2008: 160 citations2009: 155 citations2010: 163 citations2011: 151 citations2012: 144 citations2013: 156 citations2014: 133 citations2015: 104 citations2016: 125 citations2017: 114 citations2018: 73 citations2019: 108 citations2020: 96 citations2021: 82 citations2022: 52 citations2023: 37 citations2024: 33 citations2025: 8 citations2026: 3 citations1966: no citations, so this year is not shown1968: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,567 citing papers, 43.2% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 360 citing papers, 9.9% of this breakdownGermany: 168 citing papers, 4.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 130 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownCanada: 110 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownAustralia: 97 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownFrance: 86 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownChina: 80 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 72 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSpain: 71 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownItaly: 69 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSweden: 65 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Social Sciences49.7%
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance15.8%
  • Business, Management and Accounting12.4%
  • Computer Science7.5%
  • Decision Sciences2.5%
  • Environmental Science2.4%
  • Other9.7%

Topics

  • Economic Growth and Development3.9%
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies3.7%
  • Corruption and Economic Development2.9%
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth2.8%
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation2.5%
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies2.1%
  • Other82.1%

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  1. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development

    Authors: Mancur Olson - American Political Science Review 1993 cited by 3,819

  2. Governance and Growth: A Simple Hypothesis Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Productivity Growth

    Authors: Mancur Olson, Naveen Sarna, Anand V. Swamy - Public Choice 2000 cited by 309

  3. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.

    Authors: Sidney C. Sufrin, Mancur Olson - Industrial and Labor Relations Review 1966 cited by 11,767

  4. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups

    Authors: Louis Midgley, Mancur Olson - The Western Political Quarterly 1969 cited by 930

  5. The Logic of Collective Action

    Authors: Mancur Olson - Harvard University Press eBooks 1965 cited by 13,257

  6. Perspectives on Positive Political Economy

    Authors: James Ε. Alt, James Ε. Alt, James Ε. Alt, Peter C. Ordeshook, Robert H. Bates, Paul Milgrom, David M. Kreps, Harold Demsetz, William H. Riker, Douglass C. North, Gordon Tullock, Mancur Olson - Cambridge University Press eBooks 1990 cited by 907

  7. The Logic of Collective Action.

    Authors: Robert T. Golembiewski, Mancur Olson - American Sociological Review 1966 cited by 11,576

  8. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

    Authors: Charles Tilly, Mancur Olson - Revue Française de Sociologie 1983 cited by 1,354

  9. Property and contract rights in autocracies and democracies

    Authors: Christopher Clague, Philip Keefer, Stephen Knack, Mancur Olson - Journal of Economic Growth 1996 cited by 548

  10. The Rise and Decline of Nations.

    Authors: Wilfred Beckerman, Mancur Olson - The Economic Journal 1983 cited by 2,836

  11. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.

    Authors: Charles Perrow, Mancur Olson - Social Forces 1973 cited by 2,164

  12. An Economic Theory of Alliances

    Authors: Mancur Olson, Richard Zeckhauser - The Review of Economics and Statistics 1966 cited by 1,453

  13. The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force

    Authors: Martin C. McGuire, Mancur Olson - Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1998 cited by 1,030

  14. Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich, and Others Poor

    Authors: Mancur Olson - The Journal of Economic Perspectives 1996 cited by 695

  15. Does voluntary participation undermine the Coase Theorem?

    Authors: Avinash Dixit, Mancur Olson - Journal of Public Economics 2000 cited by 247

  16. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

    Authors: William Diebold, Mancur Olson - Foreign Affairs 1982 cited by 2,347

  17. The Rise and Decline of Nations

    Authors: Robert D. Tollison, Mancur Olson - Southern Economic Journal 1983 cited by 1,252

  18. Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships

    Authors: Richard N. Cooper, Mancur Olson - Foreign Affairs 2000 cited by 591

  19. Rapid Growth as a Destabilizing Force

    Authors: Mancur Olson - The Journal of Economic History 1963 cited by 522

  20. Economic Growth in Europe since 1945

    Authors: Nicholas Crafts, Nicholas Crafts, Nicholas Crafts, Barry Eichengreen, Mancur Olson, Karl-Heinz Paqué, Andrea Boltho, Charles Bean, Isabelle Cassiers, Pierre Sicsic, Magnus Henrekson, Bart van Ark, João L. César das Neves, Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Cormac Ógráda, Nicola Rossi, Wendy Carlin, Albrecht O. Ritschl, Peder J. Pedersen, Nicholas Crafts - Cambridge University Press eBooks 1996 cited by 517

  21. Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor

    Authors: Mancur Olson - A Not-so-dismal Science 2000 cited by 488

  22. Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance

    Authors: Christopher Clague, Philip Keefer, Stephen Knack, Mancur Olson - Journal of Economic Growth 1999 cited by 479

  23. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

    Authors: Scott D. Gordon, Mancur Olson - Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique 1983 cited by 476

  24. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation and Social Rigidities

    Authors: David A. Deese, Mancur Olson - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 1983 cited by 438