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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 -- Conclusion to Part II -- Index

A person's contribution to a large collective project (e.g. voting in a national election) often seems negligible. A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason not to contribute to such a project, but still to benefit from it. Tuck looks at this phenomenon of 'free riding'.