to research on property, where Ostrom herself made notable contributions. However, it is argued that her mature work on … the evolution of rules and her privileging of low-level institutions do not pay sufficient attention to local cultural …

only from legal institutions that mediate property rights, but also from social institutions that determine and distribute … recent western developments, they each expand by trying to 'eating the other up'. Western property theory promotes this … dualistic game of voracious property types. In exporting this game world wide through privatization, international agreements …