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Comments on Elinor Ostrom's 'Governing the Commons'

Silvestre, Joaquim - 1992

"Governing the Commons offers important insights to a variety of issues,in particular to the design of stable and robust institutions, the creation of norms and the process of institutional change. I have nothing to say on these. My comments will focus on a different theme, dear to economists...

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The Rediscovery of the Commons

Bollier, David - 2003

this fact because it recognizes that value-creation is not just an episodic economic transaction, as market theory holds …

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Beyond Politics: Strategies to Achieve Community Goals

Azous, Amanda - 1998

From the Author's Paper:"Effective management of community resources relies on considering economic vitality, ecological health and community quality of life. Too often, decisions are made which ultimately undermine a community's identity, resulting in losses and not gains towards community...

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Anticipating Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dryland Pastoral Systems: Using Dynamic Systems Models for the Kalahari

Dougill, Andrew J.; Fraser, Evan D.G.; Reed, Mark - 2010

managers can provide ‘win-win-win’ benefits of reducing system vulnerability, increasing economic income, and building social …

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Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance: Do Mergers Improve Managerial Performance in the Post-Merger Period?

Feroz, Ehsan H.; Kim, Sungsoo; Raab, Raymond L. - 2005

"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample …

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Network Governance of the Commons

Carlsson, Lars; Sandström, Annica - 2006

closely related to network governance and social network theory, than to political administrative hierarchy. However, so far …

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The Missing Link: Collective-Choice Policymaking in Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Public Child Care Centers

Bushouse, Brenda K. - 1999

to explain nonprofit production of certain types of goods. Hansmann (1980, 1986) developed Contract Failure Theory to …. Weisbrod (1977, 1988) developed the theory of Market/Government Failure to explain nonprofit production of collective goods … primary justification for the nonprofit institutional form. In Contract Failure Theory it signals quality to consumers because …

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The Concept of Coproduction and its Implications for Public Service Delivery

Kiser, Larry L.; Percy, Stephen L. - 1980

"Contrary to most economic theory, consumers are not always easily distinguished from producers, particularly in the …

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Equilibrium Results in Committee Settings: Theory and Experiments on Decision Costs

Herzberg, Roberta; Wilson, Rick K. - 1987

"In this paper we formulate a cost-induced equilibrium concept. This equilibrium is generated from transaction costs connected with a sequential agenda process. Our claim is that most collective choice Institutions carry with them decision costs. If these transaction costs are very large, they...

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Essays on sovereign debt valuation.

Warnes, Ignacio - 1997

The first paper, "A Theory of Sovereign Debt Valuation," provides a new framework for the valuation of sovereign debt …

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