Tine De Moor

The Dilemma of the Commoners

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Produktbeschreibung

Tine De Moor links the historical debate about the long-term evolution of commons to the present-day debates on common-pool resources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781107022164
• ISBN-10: 1107022169
• Artikelnr.: 42024437

Autorenporträt

Tine De Moor is Professor of 'Institutions for Collective Action in Historical Perspective' at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. She has published in various journals on a variety of topics in social and economic history, but most extensively on commons in northwestern Europe. She has won several prizes for her research, including the Prize for the Best Dissertation in the Category 'Medieval and Early Modern Period' of the International Economic History Association. She is also an elected member of the executive board of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) and the founder, former editor-in-chief, and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Commons.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The emergence of commons and other forms of institutions
for collective action in western Europe from the late Middle Ages onwards;
2. Common land and common rights in Flanders; 3. From rules to practice:
case description, sources and methodology; 4. The choices of the commoners:
understanding utility, efficiency and equity on the commons through the
behavior of the commoners; 5. Dealing with dilemmas: conclusions; 6.
Epilogue: the revenge of history? The return of the homo cooperans in
present-day western European countries.