Elinor Ostrom’s work on Governing The Commons: An Appreciation - LSE Review of Books

This distinction was brought home to me by collapse theorist, sci-fi novelist, and, former Archdruid of North America, John Michael Greer.20 “A controlled, creative transition to sustainability might have been possible,” Greer argues, “if the promising beginnings of the 1970s had been followed up in the ’80s and ’90s.” But our politicians and CEOs

travaux de l’économiste et philosophe Amartya Sen, travaux qui lui valurent un prix Nobel.

Resilience is something that may be very hard to see, unless you exceed its limits, overwhelm and damage the balancing loops, and the system structure breaks down.

Resilience, immanence, numen—qualities his discipline is notoriously poor in measuring.

The alternative to managerial fascism is a political process by which people decide how much of any scarce resource is the most any member of society can claim; a process in which they agree to keep limits relatively stationary over a long time, and by which they set a premium on the constant search for new ways to have an ever larger percentage of

“tragedy of the commons.”