The Contested Commons Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists

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ISBN: 9781405157162 | 140515716X
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Copyright: 2/11/2008

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The theme of common environmental resources is explored from the dual perspectives of economics and anthropology, with a focus on developing countries. Contributed readings written by senior scholars in the fields of Economics, Anthropology, and Sociology Looks at the challenges of interdisciplinary work in the social sciences, illustrating the variation in approaches/methodology Focuses on economic security, ecological sustainability, identity formation, and participatory decision-making, particularly in the developing world

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List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Economists, Anthropologists, and the Contested Commons	p. 1
Managing the Commons: The Role of Social Norms and Beliefs	p. 25
Sustainable Governance of Common-pool Resources: Context, Method, and Politics	p. 46
Cooperative Conversations: Outcomes and Processes in Economics and Anthropology	p. 66
Collective Action, Common Property, and Social Capital in South India: An Anthropological Commentary	p. 83
Culture and Power in the Commons Debate	p. 107
A Simple Model of Collective Action	p. 125
Revisiting Demsetz: Contextualizing Community-Private Ownership in Western India	p. 144
Scale and Mobility in Defining the Commons	p. 159
Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia	p. 168
Interdisciplinarity as a Three-way Conversation: Barriers and Possibilities	p. 187
Feminism Spoken Here: Epistemologies for Interdisciplinary Development Research	p. 208
Commentaries	p. 227
Social Norms and Cooperative Behavior: Notes from the Hinterland between Economics and Anthropology	p. 229
Sociologists and Economists on "the Commons"	p. 234
CPR Institutions: Game-theory Constructs and Empirical Relevance	p. 239
Disciplinary Perspectives and Policy Design for Common-pool Resources: Some Reflections	p. 248
Understanding Common Property Resources and Their Management: A Potential Bridge across Disciplinary Divides?	p. 257
And Never the Twain Shall Meet? An Exchange on the Strengths and Weaknesses of Anthropology and Economics in Analyzing the Commons	p. 266
Index	p. 280
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