How does an increase in group size affect individual welfare in the presence of Olson's group size paradox? Under the standard approaches to modeling the group size paradox, individual welfare will decrease as the size of the group increases. However, this may not be true if we apply the group...

In the 50 years since its publication, Mancur Olson's Logic of Collective Action has had an enormous impact on the academic literature in both economics and political science. In this review essay, I discuss Olson's work in light of the ensuing research, particularly developments in the...

Morgan (2000) has shown that lotteries are potentially an effective mechanism for the provision of public goods. In particular, he has shown that lotteries lead to a level of provision above the level provided by the voluntary contributions mechanism. In this paper, we analyze the effect of...