"Ostrom’s extensive research on local governance has shattered the myth of inevitability surrounding the “tragedy of the commons” and curtailed the uncritical application of the free-rider hypothesis to collective action problems""The daunting task of building rigorous models of economic and political choice in which reciprocity and trust play a meaningful role is only just beginning.."
the theory of spontaneously self organizing collectives
tribal society like commons
yes there's a burkean cautionary tale told here
" by teaching successive generations
the solution to collective-action problems lie either in the market or in the state"
“we may be creating the very conditions that undermine our democratic way of life”. .
revolutionary states beware !
but that holds only thru thew usual flinch move dogma that re-enforces it
ie
"Once destroyed, evolved institutions are every bit as difficult to reconstruct
as natural ecosystems"
