Challenging notions about elaborate governmental regulation needed to manage environmental resources, Ostrom spoke with Nitin Sethi about changes individuals can make, the urgency to move beyond debates - and the role of information: You have written...

The next section introduces new notions of stewardship over the long term, often in contrast to regimes of private property rights and exclusive individual ownership for market gain. This accounts for the many deep tensions between private property law...

It is also necessary to encourage economic democracy and the workers’ participation on company boards to thwart speculation and develop a stronger, fair, sustainable economy.” “Grazzini’s book is inspired by Nobel prize Elinor Ostrom’s studies on the...

Brink and workshop Director Michael D. McGinnis are working with Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom in her study of the Grand Junction model and other well-regarded health care systems in Bloomington, Ind. , and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The study is being...

Book: The Rise of the Green Left” by Derek Wall. “Derek Wall contrasts the long term sustainability of the shared Commons, written about extensively by Elinor Ostrom, with the inherent need for capitalism to create goods which become obsolete sooner and...

By making goods to last and through social sharing we can gain more access to the material goods with less waste and damage to the environment. Commons is the solution the experience of indigenous people, the work of Elinor Ostrom and the growth of...