The Rise and Decline of Nations
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The Rise and Decline of Nations
| Full title | The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities |
|---|---|
| Author | Mancur Olson |
| Published | 1982 |
| Pages | 276 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Olson’s account of institutional sclerosis: stable, successful societies accumulate distributional coalitions that slowly make it impossible to get anything done — the argument the current abundance literature is re-deriving. |
Where I heard about it
- @BevansAdvocate — posted on X as “My abundance take”, a two-panel meme casting Klein and Thompson’s Abundance as the anime and Olson as the manga it was adapted from, October 2025.
Connections
- Economic Growth — Olson’s subject: why growth stalls in mature democracies.
- Regulation — the accumulated rigidity his distributional coalitions produce.
- Abundance (Klein and Thompson) — the 2025 book the meme cast as the anime to this manga.
- Abundance — the concept page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.