Mancur Olson: Difference between revisions

Olson was born on January 22, 1932, in [[Grand Forks, North Dakota]], to a family of [[Norwegian-American|Norwegian]] immigrants.<ref name="journal" /><ref name="archive" /><ref name="life">{{cite web |last1=Lardner |first1=James |title=Why America Is Outhustled Mancur |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/10/12/why-america-is-outhustled-mancur/87185a05-6b4a-4e77-b8e1-01a8f3bc8dd3/ |website=Washington Post |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=12 October 1982}}</ref> He grew up on a farm near [[Buxton, North Dakota]], next to the state border with [[Climax, Minnesota]].<ref name="death">{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Bart |title=MANCUR OLSON DIES AT 66 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/02/25/mancur-olson-dies-at-66/a72b9ca0-c890-4d77-9c20-97843a140a2c/ |access-date=21 February 2022 |work=Washington Post |date=25 February 1998}}</ref> Olson claimed that his given name, Mançur, iswas acommon variationthroughout ofScandinavian-immigrant [[Mansoor]],communities anin ArabicNorth wordAmerica forand victoriouswas anda commonvariation throughoutof Scandinavian-immigrantthe communitiesArabic inname North America[[Mansoor]].<ref name="journal">{{cite journal |last1=Dixit |first1=Avinash |title=Mancur Olson-Social Scientist |journal=The Economic Journal |date=June 1999 |volume=109 |issue=No. 456 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2566014 |access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref><ref name="life" />