9/21 Class (Topic 1): Public Goods and Common Pool Resources

Public Goods and Common Pool Resources

Leading: Pieter Kleymeer, Lisa McLaughlin
Reading: Pieter, Lisa, Jim, Tim, Scott, Shyngys

If you are reading in this topic, you are responsible for reading throroughly enough in the material to carry on discussion about it, both here and in class. Please post your responses, comments, questions, observations, misgivings, concerns, etc. regarding the readings as a comment to this post by Wednesday (9/19) evening.

Required Readings
Benkler, Y. (2006). The wealth of networks : How social production transforms markets and freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press. (pp 1-16. Chapters 4, 5, & 9). Available online at http://www.congo-education.net/wealth-of-networks/ or in pdf form at http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Download_PDFs_...

Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (chapters 1 & 6)

Recommended
Ledyard, J. (1995). Public goods: A survey of experimental research. In J. H. Kagel & A. E. Roth (Eds.), The handbook of experimental economics (pp. 111-194). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.