depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we … present a model that fits the evolution of property rights observed over six centuries. Women's rights over the commons were …

the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds …

Garrett Hardin's “The Tragedy of the Commons” (Hardin, 1968) is widely influential but fundamentally incorrect. Hardin … characterizes the commons problem as arising from the exercise of free will in a world with limited carrying capacity. Hardin …), Coase (1960), and Demsetz (1967) – shows that the commons problem arises from non-exclusive use rights. Non-exclusivity is …

We study the conditions under which effective institutions of commons management emerge in a context … that the presence of costly specialization can facilitate the emergence of effective commons-management institutions. In … rights allows groups to avoid the tragedy of the commons …