Addressing the 'Tragedy of Commons' by Creating Social Capital: Some Experiments and Experience with the Street Vendors in Orissa

Abstract

"The paper documents the journey of the researcher and a group of vendors and links it with the relevant theoretical underpinnings. The paper makes an effort to answer the following questions: How to conceptualize the social capital in the context of the street vending?; Can an institutional support play a role in strengthening the social capital?; Will social capital help in addressing the tragedy of common?"