Description: Richard Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner's dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea--and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.
Brief description: Richard Tuck is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Review Quotes: Original, full of good ideas and insights, Richard Tuck's Free Riding could initiate an important debate about the least human of the human sciences.--John Ferejohn, Stanford University