Beyond Markets and States
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Beyond Markets and States
| Full title | Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems |
|---|---|
| Author | Elinor Ostrom |
| Published | 2009 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Ostrom’s 2009 Nobel lecture, compressing a career of fieldwork into one argument: between privatization and state control there are long-lived self-governing commons — irrigation systems, alpine pastures, forests, fisheries — and design principles that separate the ones that endure. Her positive programme is polycentricity, overlapping authorities at several scales rather than one centre. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, where it opens the section on Evolution of Institutions and Public Administration. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
A lecture, not a book: delivered December 8, 2009 and published in the American Economic Review the following year — about twenty pages.
Connections
- Elinor Ostrom — the author.
- Commons — the class of resource she studied.
- Tragedy of the Commons — the prediction her fieldwork contradicted.
- Institutions — the self-governing arrangements she catalogued.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.