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What book you’ve read in the last year has had the most meaningful impact on you?

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Elinor Ostrom, "Governing the Commons". I see its ideas everywhere now, and they were totally invisible/foreign to me—I saw only the privatization/regulation dichotomy before.

5:10 AM · May 7, 2021Twitter Web App

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Can you elaborate the ideas pls Andy? (If you have 2 mins :)

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May 7, 2021

I haven't read the book yet, but from the little I know I'd say that Micheal Nielsen's review here might do a good job

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom

Governing the Commons book. Read 80 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom, Co-Winner of The Sveriges R...

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I'm curious what insights stand out beyond the idea that groups can come together to 'self-regulate' to protect a commons. And this is real and it can work. (With caveats) I love her work that I have read, but I have not had a chance to actually read her book yet.