A groundbreaking, comprehensive program for designing effective and socially equitable
groups of all sizes—from businesses and social justice groups to global organizations …

How can economists use qualitative evidence–such as archival materials, interviews, and
ethnography–to study institutions? While applied economists typically rely on quantitative …

Classical liberalism entails not only a theory about the scope of government and its
relationship with the market but also a distinct view about how government should operate …

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the
forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice revolutions, discovering …

Elinor Ostrom argued that effectively coping with manmade climate change requires a
polycentric approach. Although we agree with Ostrom's assessment, her arguments …

What is the role of the state in economic development? This question has puzzled thinkers
since before Adam Smith. And economists even to this day continue to puzzle this question …

Social movements have been implicated in long-term societal transformations, helping bring
about political democratization, economic freedom, and social equality. In recent years …

This chapter introduces readers to the ecology of games framework (EGF), illustrating how it
has and can be used to examine the structure and function of polycentric governance …

In the 1970s, Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues found that neighborhood policing works
better than metropolitan policing. Though Ostrom articulated design principles for self …

Social equity research increasingly focuses on how accountability for social equity is
achieved, or how public administrators improve the access, outcomes, processes, and …