Contested commons: conversations between economists and anthropologists

By:

Bardhan, Pranab; Ray, Isha Eds

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2008 Oxford University Press New DelhiDescription: x,289p. 24 cm ; Hard BoundISBN:

978-0195698503

Subject(s):

Natural resources, Communal Communication in international relations Economic history

Contents:

Economists, anthropologists, and the contested commons / Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray -- Managing the commons : the role of social norms and beliefs / Jean-Philippe Platteau -- Sustainable governance of common-pool resources : context, method, and politics / Arun Agrawal -- Cooperative conversations : outcomes and processes in economics and anthropology / Isha Ray -- Collective action, common property, and social capital in South India : an anthropological commentary / David Mosse -- Culture and power in the commons debate / Amita Baviskar -- Simple model of collective action / Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan -- Revisiting Demsetz : contextualizing community-- private ownership in Western India / Pranab Mukhopadhyay -- Scale and mobility in defining the commons / Vyjayanthi Rao and Arjun Appadurai -- Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia / Vijayendra Rao -- Interdisciplinarity as a three-way conversation : barriers and possibilities / Sharachchandra Lélé -- Feminism spoken here : epistemologies for interdisciplinary development research / Cecile Jackson -- Commentaries, Social norms and cooperative behavior : notes from the hinterland between economics and anthropology / Kaushik Basu -- Sociologists and economists on "the commons" / Erik Olin Wright -- CPR institutions : game-theory constructs and empirical relevance / Nirmal Sengupta -- Disciplinary perspectives and policy design for common-pool resources : some reflections / Kanchan Chopra -- Understanding common property resources and their management : a potential bridge across disciplinary divides? / A. Vaidyanathan -- And never the twain shall meet? : an exchange on the strengths and weaknesses of anthropology and economics in analyzing the commons / Ravi Kanbur and Annelise Riles

Summary: The Contested Commons explores the theme of common environmental resources from the dual perspectives of economics and anthropology, with a focus on developing countries.

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Economists, anthropologists, and the contested commons / Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray --
Managing the commons : the role of social norms and beliefs / Jean-Philippe Platteau --
Sustainable governance of common-pool resources : context, method, and politics / Arun Agrawal --
Cooperative conversations : outcomes and processes in economics and anthropology / Isha Ray --
Collective action, common property, and social capital in South India : an anthropological commentary / David Mosse --
Culture and power in the commons debate / Amita Baviskar --
Simple model of collective action / Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan --
Revisiting Demsetz : contextualizing community--
private ownership in Western India / Pranab Mukhopadhyay --
Scale and mobility in defining the commons / Vyjayanthi Rao and Arjun Appadurai --
Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia / Vijayendra Rao --
Interdisciplinarity as a three-way conversation : barriers and possibilities / Sharachchandra Lélé --
Feminism spoken here : epistemologies for interdisciplinary development research / Cecile Jackson --
Commentaries, Social norms and cooperative behavior : notes from the hinterland between economics and anthropology / Kaushik Basu --
Sociologists and economists on "the commons" / Erik Olin Wright --
CPR institutions : game-theory constructs and empirical relevance / Nirmal Sengupta --
Disciplinary perspectives and policy design for common-pool resources : some reflections / Kanchan Chopra --
Understanding common property resources and their management : a potential bridge across disciplinary divides? / A. Vaidyanathan --
And never the twain shall meet? : an exchange on the strengths and weaknesses of anthropology and economics in analyzing the commons / Ravi Kanbur and Annelise Riles

The Contested Commons explores the theme of common environmental resources from the dual perspectives of economics and anthropology, with a focus on developing countries.

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