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Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems

Elinor Ostrom · American Economic Review 100(3), 641–672 · 2010

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Elinor Ostrom
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DOI 10.1257/aer.100.3.641
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2026-09-01

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TheoryHess and Ostrom's edited volume treats knowledge as a shared resource, offering an analytical framework for the knowledge commons as a social-ecological system and discussing how to guard it against enclosure through intellectual property restrictions, licensing and loss of access.