"One of the themes for the 10th Biennial Conference of the IASCP calls for methodological innovation and introspection under the heading 'Contemporary Analytical Tools and Theoretical Questions.' The theme encourages the use of methods that are relatively new to the study of common property...

"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...