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)