. Commons. Although Commons was a political economist rather than a legal scholar, his writings in the early 1890s about the … other foundational legal realist writers. The essay focuses on Commons' first book, THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH, that … detailed the role that legal rules play in shaping power and coercion in a market economy. Commons argued that law …

"Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as …, who discussed Swiss commons as a unique case of robustness, by analysing how local commoners reacted to, but also shaped … the management of the commons (pastures, forest) on the local level are embedded in the public policies of the respective …

"Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and … argument by considering several types of commons: forests, fisheries, minerals, and the global environment. The central lesson …, economics, political science, and public policy as well as policymakers who are interested in environmental governance and the …