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“Before about 1800, famine was a common cause of death everywhere. The majority of the world’s population were subsistence farmers. When conditions were good, they produced enough to eat and a little more. When conditions were bad, they consumed their savings. If the bad conditions persisted, they died.
Then, first in England and soon in many [...]

One of the winners of this year’s Nobel – Elinor Ostrom (also the first women to win the Nobel in Economics) – has documented in Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action “that around the world private associations have often, but not always, managed to avoid the tragedy of the commons and develop [...]