El gobierno de los bienes comunes

La evolución de las instituciones de acción colectiva Sección de obras de economía contemporánea

print book, 395 pagine

lingua Spanish

Pubblicato il 10 Luglio 2000 da Fondo de Cultura Económica, Universidad Autónoma de México.

ISBN:
978-968-16-6343-8
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Numero OCLC:
760458365

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Libro que rápidamente se ha colocado como un paradigma del pensamiento social, en especial para el campo de la conservación de los recursos naturales. Elinor Ostrom responde con argumentos de fondo a la opinión de que los recursos poseídos y administrados colectivamente están por definición condenados a la sobreexplotación y al deterioro.

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A seminal work which is altogether pleasant to read. Mandatory reading for anyone involved in common goods management and thinking (including water, environment, cultural commons with copyright or copyleft, online communities).

Ostrom shows that there are many different ways to manage common goods (or specifically common pool resources, CPR) and various kinds of local, decentralised or custom-based governance systems have proved successful. The dychotomy between privatization and state control is a false one because it's based on equally impossible assumptions (perfectly rational market actors, perfect monitoring by an omniscient central authority), as even a modicum of game theory is able to show. Ostrom provides a theory, or rather a framework (as she prefers to say) to understand a series of case studies on the ground and attempt to reproduce successful governance systems in other cases with limited disruption.