|
|
|
PDF
|
|
Type:
|
Working Paper |
|
Author:
|
Frischmann, Brett M. |
|
Date:
|
2013 |
|
Agency:
|
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York |
|
Series:
|
Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 387 |
|
URI:
|
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9045
|
|
Sector:
|
Social Organization |
|
Region:
|
|
|
Subject(s):
|
Ostrom, Elinor
methodology
tragedy of the commons
free riding
commons
institutional analysis--IAD framework
|
|
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 Ostroms 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 Ostroms 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."
|