R: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

Mary Wong MWong at piercelaw.edu
Thu Feb 25 15:43:58 EST 2010


Her work is also and increasingly heavily cited by a small but growing
group of law professors and academics (including those working with the
Creative Commons movement) who are concerned about the over-extending
("enclosure") of intellectual property rights to private owners.
 
It was definitely educational for me to read her work, when writing
about crafting a human rights (rather than private property-based)
framework for copyright and other intellectual property.
 
Cheers
Mary 
 
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From: William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>
To:<governance at lists.cpsr.org>, "Fiorello Cortiana"
<f.cortiana at provincia.milano.it>
Date: 2/25/2010 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: R: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand
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 (
http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutions-Collective/dp/0521405998/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267101669&sr=1-3
)" and "Understanding Institutional Diversity (
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Institutional-Diversity-Elinor-Ostrom/dp/0691122385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267101721&sr=1-1
)", two of her seminal books on this issue. 

More on that later when I have thee time.

Best

Bertrand


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