Today I would like to talk to you about two common senses in the political field - yes, although they are common sense in the political field, we can all find evidence in our own social life.
1, ** deprived of the greatWhy do so few rebel against the rights and freedoms of some people?
Because everybody wants to "hitchhike". Even if the ** system can be overthrown, the result will be that everyone will benefit, but those who come out on top may have to pay a great price. As a result, most people want to wait for someone else to do the risky thing while they sit back and enjoy it.
Human nature is like this, and it is also a matter of nature.
Of course, they also understand this truth, so while they maintain the **, they will spare no effort to fight the rebels who stand out, kill the chickens and monkeys, and make every effort to disintegrate all possible collective actions.
2. What does special interest groups have to do with the rise and fall of the state? Special interest groups will benefit their members by establishing new or preserving old rules of the game. The more and stronger the dividing group, the more restricted the market becomes, and the more resources leave the value creation sector for lobbying and bribery, the more it discourages hard workers and innovators; The slower the economic growth and the more unequal the distribution, the more social conflicts and the decay of the country. Do you agree with the above two points? But I have to be clear: they are not what I said, and the copyright belongs to a foreigner named Mancer Olsen. 
Mancer Olson is one of the most influential economists in the contemporary world, a generation of grandmasters of the American school of political economy, and his ideological contributions have extended far beyond the scope of economics to political science, sociology, management and other major fields.
Economist Paul Hayne was full of praise for him: "Manser Olsen is more profound than all his contemporaries when it comes to studying the influence of special interest groups, forms of power, and so on on politicians' economic decisions." ”
The Economist magazine called him a "whipper of interest groups.""If he hadn't died too soon, his theory of collective action would probably have earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics." ”
The closest Chinese economist to the Nobel Prize" Yang Xiaokai said: I have great admiration and respect for Professor Olson's extraordinary insight.
Therefore, I would like to sincerely recommend Olson's "Political Economy Trilogy", including "The Rise and Fall of Nations", "Power and Prosperity", and "The Logic of Collective Action".
"The Rise and Fall of Nations":The theme of this great book is that the longer a society is politically stable, the more likely it is that powerful special interest groups will develop that result in lower economic efficiency. The central question that Olson has devoted his life to research is why some countries prosper and others continue to decline. He explained the reasons for the rapid economic growth of the developed Western democracies after World War II, such as the United States, Germany, and Japan, in terms of the number of profit-sharing groups and the extent to which they were involved.
Power & Prosperity:In this book, Olson argues that ** plays a crucial role in the development of the market. The reliable protection of private contracts and individual property rights depends on being strong enough to guarantee the enforcement of these rights, and at the same time being sufficiently restricted to avoid erosion of these rights. The concept of "strengthening the market" proposed in this book is a cutting-edge concept in the analysis of economic growth, and provides a useful analytical framework for the evolution of governance and economic policies in Asia and other developing countries after the financial crisis.
The Logic of Collective Action:Professor Olson's book, The Logic of Collective Action, is a foundational work on public choice theory. Chapter 1 provides a logical and theoretical explanation of certain aspects of group and organizational behavior. Chapter 2 examines the implications of analysing groups of different sizes and concludes that in many cases small groups are more efficient and viable. Chapter 3 examines the implications of the argument in favor of trade unions and concludes that a form of compulsory membership is, in most cases, a matter of life and death for trade unions.
Some say that Olson's writing style is very similar to that of a detective, which shows how friendly his books are to the general reader. His theory of collective action has great insight and inspiration for us to understand the ways of thinking and acting of others in a collective, and even to understand ourselves. So the classics are not to be missed. Please click on the product card below if you are interested, and place an order with one click (it is recommended to choose different combinations according to your needs).