If the boys don’t stand to benefit from the vaccine, then are we making boys into The Island? Well, that’s an awfully inflammatory way to start out, I grant you. Here’s another inflammatory way to start out … would forcing boys to be vaccinated against their will but without any medical benefit to them, with […]
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Elinor Ostrom and the Tragedy of the Commons
By Ilya Somin on October 12, 2009 11:08 pm in Collective Action Problems, Economy, Environment, Libertarianism, Property Rights, Regulation
I was very happy to hear about Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics. Her work focuses on the tragedy of the commons and collective action problems, which overlaps several of my own research interests. When Ostrom began writing in this field in the 1960s, the conventional wisdom in economics and political science was that the […]