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Interviewed by Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Stockholm. He is the author of Economic Sociology: Past and Presentand Economics and Sociology.The interview with Mancur Olson in this issue of SOCIETY comes from the latter book., to be published by Princeton University Press in 1990.
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Olson, M. Economy, logic, and action. Society 27, 71–81 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695542
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