A particular sub-class of social institutions. Back in undergraduate days this was massive for me, but I have been thinking of over things since then. I could do with a refresher. for now, google of Elinor Ostrom and David Putnam and the critiques of those authors for a flavour of this. Especially Ostrom.
Taxonomy of public goods
Institutions that manage these
Nadia Eghbal, An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons point to the failure of online discourse as an issue of management of the commons
References
Buterin, Vitalik, Zoë Hitzig, and E. Glen Weyl. 2019. “A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods.” Management Science 65 (11): 5171–87.
Hanna, Susan S. 1997. “The New Frontier of American Fisheries Governance.” Ecological Economics 20: 221–33.
Hardin, Garrett. 1968. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science 162: 1243–48.
Hardin, Russell. 1971. “Collective Action as an Agreeable n-Prisoners’ Dilemma.” Behavioral Science 16 (5): 472–81.
Levin, Simon A. 2000. Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons. Basic Books.
Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions). Cambridge University Press.
———. 1992. “The Rudiments of a Theory of the Origins, Survival, and Performance of Common Property Institutions.” Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice and Policy.
Ostrom, Elinor, Joanna Burger, Christopher B Field, Richard B Norgaard, and David Policansky. 1999. “Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges.” Science 284: 278–82.
Putnam. 1993. “The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life.” The American Prospect 13: 65–78.
Putnam, Leonardi, and Nanetti. 1993. “Social Capital and Institutional Success.” In Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ.
Sekeris, Petros G. 2012. “The Tragedy of the Commons in a Violent World.” Working Paper 1213. University of Namur, Department of Economics.
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