<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div>She's very deserving (as was Oliver Williamson). At the same time, it's hard not to have mixed feelings about political scientists being tossed into the economics category by the Nobel folks, who apparently think no other social science merits consideration. Especially since economism (or at least the institutionalized fetishism thereof) has done such thorough damage to political science.<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Fiorello Cortiana wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="305140313-25022010"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal medium/normal 'Times New Roman'; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 19px; LINE-HEIGHT: 25px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal medium/normal 'Times New Roman'; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 19px; LINE-HEIGHT: 25px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Bernard,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">thanks for
reporting the books of Elinor Ostrom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="COLOR: black"><span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">I've
had the honor and the pleasure to write the preface to the Italian edition of
her book "Understanding Knowledge As a Commons" <span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">so
it was nice to see her rewarded with the Nobel
Prize</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">ciao</span></span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Fiorello</span></span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>Da:</b> Bertrand de La Chapelle
[mailto:bdelachapelle@gmail.com] <br><b>Inviato:</b> giovedì 25 febbraio 2010
13.44<br><b>A:</b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>; Avri Doria<br><b>Oggetto:</b> Re:
[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand<br></font><br></div>
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<div>Dear all,</div>
<div><br></div>An important element in this debate would be to introduce the
intellectual framework developed by Elinor Ostrom (nobel Prize in Economics
2009) regarding Common Pool Resources (CPRs) and their corresponding governance
mechanisms.
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<div>The fundamental idea is that the classical "tragedy of the commons" paper
is simply wrong and that concerned actors (what we call stakeholders) can
develop common governance frameworks for the management of common
resources.
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<div>Although she does not use the term "multi-stakeholder", the spirit is
clearly there and she positions CPR Governance systems as between state
regulation of the commons and privatization/market mechanisms. </div>
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<div>I do not have time to detail this here but encourage all participants in
this discussion to read "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutions-Collective/dp/0521405998/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267101669&sr=1-3">Governing
the Commons</a>" and "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Institutional-Diversity-Elinor-Ostrom/dp/0691122385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267101721&sr=1-1">Understanding
Institutional Diversity</a>", two of her seminal books on this
issue. </div>
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<div>More on that later when I have thee time.</div>
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<div>Best</div>
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<div>Bertrand<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>