In an earlier article, ldquo;Ideas, artifacts and facilities: information as a common-pool resourcerdquo;, we examined the role of collective action in building robust knowledge commons and in circumventing trends of enclosure and privatisation of the intellectual public domain. Our analysis...

The relative advantages of private property and common property for the efficiency, equity, and sustainability of natural resource use patterns have long been debated in the legal and economics literatures. The debate has been clouded by a troika of confusions that relate to the difference...

This study covers property law and property rights, providing a full summary and comprehensive bibliography of the existing law, together with discussion from an economic perspective on the most important aspects of property law. Leading experts have brought together their knowledge and insight...

Intro -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction: An Overview of the Knowledge Commons -- 2 - The Growth of the Commons Paradigm -- 3 - A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons -- 4 - Countering Enclosure: Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons -- 5 - Mertonianism Unbound? Imagining Free, Decentralized...

This compelling book offers a fresh and novel approach to study cultural and artistic expression from the perspective of ‘the commons’. It demonstrates how identifying cultures as shared resources is useful in eliciting the main factors and social dilemmas affecting the production...

This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues that single policies adopted only at a global scale are unlikely to generate sufficient trust...