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Discussion Ugo Mattei: "Tragedy of the Commons: Two World Views in Conflict Competition v. Cooperation "As Adam Smith put it, “We are not ready to suspect any person of being defective in selfishness.”[14] To put is quite simply, this is the central assumption ...
- Introduction. Dominant Wisdom.
- Seeing The Commons
- Tragedy of The Commons: Two World Views in Conflict Competition v. Cooperation
- Going Beyond The Tragedy
- The Holistic Revolution: Rehabilitating The Common Sense
- Political Shift
- Conclusion
Social justice is pursued in Western democracies by the (currently declining) institutions of theWelfare State. Access to social justice programs are usually understood as provided by “rights ofsecond generation.” These social rights are not merely negative (shields against infringement), likeproperty rights, but are considered positive i.e. requir...
The current vision presents the opposition between “the public” (the domain of the State) and “theprivate” (the domain of the market and of private property) as exhausting all the range ofpossibilities (in a sort of zero sum game). This gridlocked opposition is a product of the modernisttradition still dominant today in law and in economics. It hyd...
Individual selfishness is the central assumption underpinning Hardin’s analysis. the centralassumption underpinning Hardin’s analysis. Only the crude application of the model of homooeconomicus, an individual maximizer of short-time utility, explains the results (and academicsuccess) of the so-called “tragedy of the commons.” In fact, the well know...
Elinor Ostrom and her team of social scientists successfully demonstrated through an overwhelmingamount of empirical evidence that cooperative property arrangements are in fact successful andindividuals do not destroy their common pool resources. Ostrom's work undeniably marks a criticalturning point in economic theory. It refuted Hardin’s tragedy ...
Interestingly enough the counter-hegemonic narrative to the cornerstone of individualism, originatedin the sciences. Holistic attitudes, based on the qualitative mapping of relationships, rather than onquantitative measurements and the positivistic reductionism of Galileo, Descartes, and Newton,also eventually emerged in the natural sciences throug...
Today we can see from examples all around us, from global warming to the economic collapse, thatthe politically recessive but philosophically more sophisticated holistic paradigm offers us afundamental and necessary shift in the perception of reality. In this context the commons can offer aninstitutional setting reflexive of the need to reject the ...
Even today, despite the dramatic crisis of 2008, when the free market ideology has shown itscatastrophic nature, State intervention dubbed Keynesian policy, has been utilized to transfermassive amounts of public money to the private sector. The logic of plunder shared by both theprivate and the state sector could not be more open. It should be clea...
2. "The Tragedy of the Commons is a leading social science paradigm largely based on a Garrett Hardin's 1968 Science article by that name. Hardin postulates a commons pasture that is open to all and examines the position of a commons herdsman who is deciding whether to add an animal to his herd.
In the P2P Energy Economy consumers identify, as part of each purchase of goods or services, the required attributes (for the given good or service) as well as their social, environmental and ecological values, which allows them to find producers (of the given good or service) who support their values.
