Group Size and Group Behavior Mancur Olsen 1965

This is from Olsen's book The logic of Collective Action, which I skimmed last month, entirely missing this paper. I was happy with the beginning; it triggered all kinds of ideas. The impression i get of the ending is that it ends up being a defense of the application of the standard economic assumptions as applied to group behavior, however complex he concedes that it is. It does it with the argument from defection.

quotes

• "In general, social pressure and social incentives operate oonly in groups of smaller size, in the groups so small that the members can have face-to-face contact with one another. "
• "social status and social accepteance are individual non-collective goods"