Keyword: free rider
Free Riding on Preventive Health Care (8/16/2000)
Individual health insurers may be reluctant to aggressively offer smoking cessation treatment to their insured members because of high turnover of treated patients to other health insurers
Keywords: free rider, health care, HMO, insurance, preventive service
He Who Pays the Piper (2/27/2007)
How on-the-air radio is indirectly funded affects the quality of radio programming as a public good.
Keywords: ads, commercial, consumption rivalry, donations, free rider, free-rider, fund raising, fund-raising, indirect funding, public goods, public radio, quality programming, sponsorship
The Logic of Collective Action (12/21/2001)
Narrow special interests are often more politically powerful because they are easier to organize and the benefits of membership exceed the cost of participation.
Keywords: collective action, consumer lobbies, free rider, free-ridership, group membership, import quotas, organization costs, participation, pluralism, producer lobby, special interests, tariffs, trade protection