Contested commons: conversations between economists and anthropologists
- New Delhi Oxford University Press 2008
- x,289p. 24 cm ; Hard Bound
Rs.695/-
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.
978-0195698503
Natural resources, Communal Communication in international relations Economic history