Elinor Ostrom: Nobel Lecture

Research on how people organise shared resources. Compare actual rules, monitoring and conflict resolution rather than assuming a single governance solution.

How to study this source

• Under what conditions can a shared resource be governed collectively?

  coreOpening third of the Nobel Lecture; record the argument rather than the award biography.

  Research on how people organise shared resources. Compare actual rules, monitoring and conflict resolution rather than assuming a single governance solution.

• How can people govern a shared resource?

  coreElinor Ostrom’s Nobel Lecture, opening overview and one institutional example

  Shared resources can be managed through varied arrangements that need evidence about rules and outcomes.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against