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Author Wall, Derek, author

Title The sustainable economics of Elinor Ostrom : commons, contestation and craft / Derek Wall
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 217 pages .)
Series Routledge studies in ecological economics ; 33
Routledge studies in ecological economics ; 33.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 An accidental life?; Introduction; An accidental life?; Garrett Hardin, Karl Marx and the tragedy of the commons; From Adam Smith to Amartya Sen; The sustainable economics of Elinor Ostrom; 2 Signs and wonders; Alexis de Tocqueville; Lasswell and Kaplan; John R. Commons; Friedrich Hayek; Michael Polanyi; James Buchanan; Ernst Mayr; Selten and Axelrod; Herbert Simon; The Haudenosaunee Confederation; Jane Jacobs; Ostrom beyond Ostrom; 3 On method; Beyond positivism
Institutional analysis and development A grammar of institutions; Institutional analysis and development in practice; Game theory and formal modelling; Experimental methods; Agent based models; Case studies; Large scale quantitative techniques; Satellite surveys; Methodological individualism; Multiple methods, plural practices; 4 Au contraire, Monsieur Hardin!; Classifying the commons; The tragedy of the commons?; The triumph of the commons?; Designing successful commons; Clearly defined boundaries; Cost benefit equivalence; Locally adapted rules for collective governance; Monitoring
Graduated sanctionsConflict resolution mechanisms; The right of users to organize; Nested structures; Rapid exogenous change; Transmission failure; Blueprint thinking; Corruption and rent seeking behaviour; 5 Green from the grassroots: social-ecological systems; Global environmental crisis; Social-ecological systems; Polycentric solutions to climate change; Situating the ecological economics of Elinor Ostrom; 6 Knowledge commons; Commons, anti-commons and the common; A short history of the future; Crafting the knowledge economy the Ostrom way; An IAD guide to internet success
7 The political economy of the commons in physical goodsSharing and sustainability; Coproduction of physical goods; Financial commons; Health commons; Common pool production and consumption; 8 Politics without romance; Commons, capitalism, conflict and colonialism; Ostrom on political power; The constitutional politics of Vincent Ostrom; From the republic to the commons; The politics of the commons; The politics of commons and contestation; 9 A new science for a new world; Introduction; Aligică and Boettke on challenging institutional analysis and development
David Harvey's challenge to polycentricismEoin Flaherty on modes of production, metabolism and resilience; Arun Agrawal's challenge to institutionalism; Elinor Ostrom's contribution to a sustainable economics; A new science for a new world?; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the twenty-first century - from tackling climate change to maintaining cyberspace. In this book, Derek Wall critically examines Ostrom's work, while also exploring the following questions: is it possible to combine insights rooted in methodological individualism with a theory that stresses collectivist solutions? Is Ostrom's emphasis on largely local solutions to climate change relevant to a crisis propelled by global factors?This volume situ
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ostrom, Elinor -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Ostrom, Elinor fast
Ostrom, Elinor 1933-2012 gnd
Subject Sustainable development.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Global commons.
sustainable development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Microeconomics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Global commons
Infrastructure (Economics)
Political and social views
Sustainable development
Umweltökonomie
Externer Effekt
Kollektiventscheidung
Hållbar utveckling.
Infrastruktur.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1136173129
9781136173127
9780203081341
020308134X
9781136173073
1136173072
9781136173110
1136173110