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Mancur olson biography of george
Mancur Olson
American economist and political scientist (1932–1998)
Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. (;[2] January 22, 1932 – February 19, 1998) was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.
His most influential contributions were to new institutional economics, and focused on the role played by private property, taxation, public goods, collective action, and contract rights in economic development.
Early life and education
Olson was born on January 22, 1932, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, to a family of Norwegian immigrants.[2][3][4] He grew up on a farm near Buxton, North Dakota, next to the state border with Climax, Minnesota.[5] Olson claimed that his given name, Mancur, was common throughout Scandinavian-immigrant communities in North America and was a variation of the Arabic name Mansoor.[2][4]
Olson graduated from North Dakota State University in