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Daily Archive for June 1st, 2012

Just minutes after posting on Ostrom’s work on governing the commons, the US Congress in typical dangerous bipartisan fashion votes to ensure the continued depletion of fisheries and ocean resource stocks. The amendment was offered by Steve Southerland (R) with the help of Barney Frank (D) and others. What a disaster. I was going to […]

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Elinor Ostrom’s book Governing the Commons is a marvel. Though she was recognized in 2009 with the Nobel Prize in Economics for this work, it is still in my view not widely understood or shared. The simple lesson (told in glorious detail throughout her career) is that there is a difference between “Open Access Resources” […]

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