read /Governing the Commons/

[chadwhitacre]

At Platform Cooperativism, I learned about Elinor Ostrom from Robin Chase. Looks like we ought to read her Governing the Commons (1990), though maybe we should read "Tragedy of the Commons* (1968) first, for context ... which itself builds on "Two lectures on the checks to population" (1833).

[chadwhitacre]

Ordered.

[chadwhitacre]

I did read "Tragedy of the Commons," btw. Turns out its an argument for proactive population control by the state.

[chadwhitacre]

Also cited by @JanelleOrsi at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJc60wCbL70#t=17m33s (discovered under https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/72#issuecomment-166317997).

[chadwhitacre]

The tl;dr:

Ostrom identified eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management:[22]

1. Clearly defined boundaries (clear definition of the contents of the common pool resource and effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties);
2. Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources that are adapted to local conditions;
3. Collective-choice arrangements that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;
4. Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;
5. A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;
6. Mechanisms of conflict resolution that are cheap and of easy access;
7. Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities; and
8. In the case of larger common-pool resources, organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level.

[chadwhitacre]

I started this. I read the preface and am into the first chapter.

[chadwhitacre]

Finished!

[chadwhitacre]

Some thoughts starting in https://github.com/whit537/openorg/issues/5.