Liberty and Responsibility in Polycentric Circles: The Ostrom Legacy
ABSTRACT
This conference looked at the polycentric and common resource allocation problem approaches of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom together as a single legacy, how they relate together as a common approach, and the importance of that legacy for our understanding of the functioning of the free society.
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The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty
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By James M. Buchanan
Foreword by Geoffrey Brennan, Hartmut Kliemt, and Robert D. Tollison
The thirty-one papers presented in this volume offer scholars and general readers alike a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest economists of the modern era. Many of Buchanan’s most important essays are gathered in this inaugural volume of the twenty-volume series from Liberty Fund of his…
Additional Readings
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Aligicia, Paul and Peter Boettke. Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Besley, Timothy. “The New Political Economy [paper based on his Keynes lecture, November 8, 2004] .” London School of Economics. http://econ.lse.ac.uk/~tbesley/papers/keyneslecturetext.pdf (Accessed October 15, 2012).
Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 162, no. 3859 (December 1968): 1243-1248.
Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Ostrom, Elinor. “Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems [Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2009] .” Nobelprize.org: the official website of the Nobel Prize. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2009/ostrom_lecture.pdf (Accessed October 15, 2012).
Ostrom, Elinor. “Coevolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics.” Rationality, Markets, and Morals. http://www.rmm-journal.de/downloads/Article_Ostrom.pdf (Accessed October 15, 2012).
Ostrom, Vincent. The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration, 3rd Edition. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2008.
Ostrom, Vincent, Charles M. Tiebout and Robert Warren. “The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry.” The American Political Science Review 55, no. 4 (December 1961): 831-842.
Poteete, Amy, Marco Janssen, and Elinor Ostrom. Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice. Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, 2010.