Who is the author of the book "The Logic of Collective Action" ?

Georg Simmel Vilfredo Pareto E. P. Thomson Mancur Olson

Mancur Olson

Mancur Olson’s book The Logic of Collective Action argues that a social movement is an aggregation of rational individual actors pursuing their self-interest. A person will join a social movement only if s/he will gain something from it. S/he will participate only if the risks are less than the gains. Olson’s theory is based on the notion of the rational, utility-maximising individual