Course Overview: Part 1

Course Overview: Part 2

Topics

• Overview of Commons• Varieties of Commons• Social Dilemmas• Property Rights• Tragedies of Commons• Successfully governed Commons• Development Aid• Institutional Analysis• TBD (Technology and Commons, Mapping the Commons)

Disciplines, Methods, Evidence

• Philosophy (arguing from basic principles) • Law• Political economy• Library research (document analysis)• History • Game Theory (modeling, lab experiments, simulations)• Economics• Field research (interviews, surveys, case studies)• Comparative Case Studies (theory building)