The connection between 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Elinor Ostrom’s work on the governance of common-pool resources and relatively recent work on knowledge commons.

“Ostrom’s pioneering work mostly concerns the governance of common-pool resources — resources that are rivalrous (i.e., scarce, can be used up, unlike digital goods) yet need to be or should be governed as a commons — classically, things like water systems and the atmosphere. This work is cited by many scholars of non-rivalrous commons (e.g., knowledge commons) as laying the groundwork for their field.”

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