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Elinor Ostrom

An Intellectual Biography

von: Vlad Tarko
36,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield International
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	15.12.2016
ISBN/EAN:	9781783485901
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	202

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Titelbeschreibung

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice revolutions, discovering surprising ways in which communities around the world have succeed in solving difficult collective problems. She first rose to prominence by studying the police in metropolitan areas in the United States, and showing that, contrary to the prevailing view at the time, community policing and smaller departments worked better than centralized and large police departments. Together with her husband, Vincent, they have set up the Bloomington Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which has grown into a global network of scholars and practitioners. Throughout her career, she was interested in studying ecological problems, and understanding how people manage communal properties. Her most famous discovery is that communities often find ingenious ways of escaping the “tragedy of the commons”. Analysing a wide-variety of successes and failures, and working together with many other scholars, she was able to uncover a series of institutional “design principles”: a set of criteria which, if followed, societies are more likely to be productive and resilient to shocks. Some of her most important theoretical insights, about polycentricity and institutional evolution, arose from this synthesizing effort. Furthermore, this led her to develop a framework for the study of the relationship between societies and their natural environment which brought institutional insights into the field of environmental studies.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

An accelerated introduction into the life and work of the first female Nobel Laureate for Economics, Elinor Ostrom.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The idea of self-governance as the foundation to institutional analysis and development / 1. Against Gargantua: The study of local public economies / 2. Polycentricity: The art and science of association / 3. Escaping the tragedy of the commons: The concept of property and the varieties of self-governing arrangements / 4. Resilience: Understanding the institutional capacity to cope with shocks and other challenges / 5. Hamilton’s dilemma: Can societies establish good governments by reflection and choice? / Conclusion: Elinor Ostrom as a role model for social scientists

Autorenportrait

Vlad Tarko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Dickinson College, USA.

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<td width="405"> 978-0415641746, Wall, The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, contestation and craft (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics) Routledge Hardcover, 30 Jan 2014, £85, 240pp </td>
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