The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the

Why this matters here

Olson's Logic of Collective Action argues that large groups systematically underprovide public goods because individual incentives favor free-riding unless selective pressures organize contribution. When Moral Seriousness Scales uses that incentive asymmetry for how friction that once slowed escalation can thin: actors who tolerate displacement may accumulate advantage while those who absorb cost keep practicing reciprocity alone.