This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a co

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability. The history of the commons—jointly o

This book explores the potential creation of a broader collaborative economy through commons-based peer production (P2P) and the emergent role of information an

This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's as