Localism is great! …but it is no panacea.
We look at everything from American racial history to the differences between Chattanooga’s and China’s “local” internets.
The New Sewer Socialists, Evan Malmgren, Logic
An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons, Nadia Eghbal, on Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Ostrom noticed there are many situations where common resources are allocated efficiently, without intervention from the market or state. She explores, through a series of case studies, why this occurred, and under what conditions we could recreate these situations.
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