Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatizatio

Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions.

Fifty years ago, conventional thinking among economists and environmentalists was that depletion of natural resources could only be prevented through the free m

"Knowledge commons" describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data,