Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
American Economic Review
Elinor Ostrom
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Ostrom’s Nobel lecture synthesizes decades of research showing that polycentric governance—multiple semi-autonomous decision centers under shared rules—can govern common-pool resources and public goods more effectively than market-or-state dichotomies alone.
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