Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-09-01
Roger D. Congleton of George Mason University reviews “Free Riding” by Richard Tuck,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the possibility that the phenomenon of free riding, or declining to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, is a recent, historically contingent concept. Discusses the prisoners’ dilemma; voting and other thresholds; negligibility; rule and act utilitarianism; and perfect competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. Tuck is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government at Harvard University. Index.”