How “Free” is Free Riding in Civil Wars?: Violence, Insurgency, and the Collective Action Problem

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

An Epistemic Free-Riding Problem?

An Epistemic Free-Riding Problem? Christian List and Philip Pettit 1 August 2003 Karl Popper noted that, when social scientists are members of the society they study, they may affect that society. If the individuals to whom a theory initially applies come to understand that theory, then this understanding may affect their behaviour in such a way that the theory ceases to be applicable. This may...

leading the ignorant: can ignorance eliminate the free riding problem?

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leading the ignoranti: can ignorance eliminate the free riding problem?

"Free Spaces" in Collective Action

Good metaphors may be essential to social science. By putting ``the polysemous properties of language in the foreground,'' they facilitate what Richard Harvey Brown calls the ``genre-stretching'' that drives innovation. The danger of a good metaphor, though, is that claims merely implied are subjected neither to theoretical speci¢cation nor empirical investigation. Evocation substitutes for exp...