On the limits of unsolvability of the “free rider problem”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19164523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrei Yudanov (0000-0002-5011-9830, corresponding author), O E Pyrkina (0000-0001-9959-8695), O Pyrkina (Financial University), E Bekker (Financial University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 57-75 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Voprosy Ekonomiki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-8736 |
| Publisher | Redaktsiya zhurnala Voprosy Ekonomiki (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.32609/0042-8736-2016-11-57-75 |
| OpenAlex | W2592395721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
The article reinterprets the classic «free rider problem» known as unsolvable from the position of how the free rider’s surrounding affects him. It introduces the concepts of public and private harm from the free rider’s activity. It also describes a wide variety of manifestations of the “free ridership” in which the private harm suffered by significant social groups is large enough to cause on their part an active opposition to free riders. According to the authors, under proper institutional conditions this opposition results in effective decision of the “free rider problem”. They offer a mathematical model of the process: the Markov chain with a single or multiple absorbing states
Business · Economics · Epistemology · Free product · Free rider problem · Free riding · Free will · Harm · Law and economics · Markov chain · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Physics · Political science · Public good · Computer Science · Game Theory and Applications · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |