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Two Enduring Lessons from Elinor
Ostrom
Brett
M. Frischmann
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law
March 10,
2013
Journal of Institutional
Economics, 2013, Forthcoming
Cardozo
Legal Studies Research Paper No. 387
Abstract:
This article is a tribute to
Elinor Ostrom. It explores two enduring lessons she taught: a substantive lesson
that involves embracing complexity and context, and a methodological lesson that
involves embracing a framework-driven approach to systematic, evolutionary
learning through various interdisciplinary methodologies, theories, and
empirical approaches.
First, I discuss Ostrom’s work on environmental
commons. I illustrate the two lessons through a discussion of the tragedy of the
commons. Next, I explain how the two lessons play a significant role in recent
efforts to extend Ostrom’s work on environmental commons to knowledge/cultural
commons. I draw a parallel between the tragedy of the commons allegory and the
free rider allegory, and show how many of the problems Ostrom explored in the
environmental context are manifest in the cultural environmental context. I
discuss an ongoing research project that follows the path that Ostrom blazed and
systematically studies commons in the cultural environment.
Number of
Pages in PDF File: 21
Keywords: Ostrom,
commons, externalities, institutional economics, institutions, IAD
Accepted
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