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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
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