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Author Moor, Tine de, author

Title The dilemma of the commoners : understanding the use of common-pool resources in long-term perspective / Tine De Moor
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 204 pages)
Series Political economy of institutions and decisions
Political economy of institutions and decisions.
Summary One of the classic problems in social science is known as 'the dilemma of the commons', in which land, water, and other resources held jointly by social or economic segments tend to be depleted sooner and to a greater extent than privately held assets. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many aspects of western European society changed fundamentally, including the abolition of common-property rights, which in itself was related to social and economic shifts in that same society. This book intends to put the debate on commons, commoners, and the disappearance of both throughout early modern and modern northwestern Europe in a new light, through new approaches and innovative methodologies. Tine De Moor aims to link the historical debate about the long-term evolution of commons to the present-day debates on common-pool resources, as well as touching upon various disciplines within the social sciences that work on commons issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cooperation -- Europe -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Cooperation
Öffentliches Gut
Eigentum
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781316318553
1316318559
9781139135450
1139135457