R: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[William Drake]

Hi

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.

Cheers,

Bill


On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Fiorello Cortiana wrote:

> Bernard,
> thanks for reporting the books of Elinor Ostrom.  I've had the honor and the pleasure to write the preface to the Italian edition of her book "Understanding Knowledge As a Commons" so it was nice to see her rewarded with the Nobel Prize
>  
> ciao
>  
> Fiorello
> 
> Da: Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle at gmail.com] 
> Inviato: giovedì 25 febbraio 2010 13.44
> A: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Avri Doria
> Oggetto: Re: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> I do not have time to detail this here but encourage all participants in this discussion to read "Governing the Commons" and "Understanding Institutional Diversity", two of her seminal books on this issue. 
> 
> More on that later when I have thee time.
> 
> Best
> 
> Bertrand

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