This is a hugely interesting book that will almost certainly start a controversy. It addresses some of the widest assumptions in contemporary economic and social thought and calls them into question; and it provides a very illuminating history of the appearance of those assumptions.
   --Philip Pettit, Princeton University

Original, full of good ideas and insights, Richard Tuck's Free Riding could initiate an important debate about the least human of the human sciences.
   --John Ferejohn, Stanford University

Richard Tuck is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University.