What is it about?
The term “commons” is used with increasing frequency in the public debate and scientific literature in various fields (including economics and sociology). However, this term is often ambiguous and used to denote quite different things. This article critically revisits the notion itself of “commons”.
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Why is it important?
The overall aim is not solely to distinguish different uses of the term "commons"; it is also to clarify the real scope and meaning of each definition of it – such as the one proposed by Elinor Ostrom, which is too often inappropriately invoked.
Perspectives
Some terms are more fortunate than others: they are rhetorically attractive, appear at the right time, etc. However, once the “emerging” phase has passed, they must be clearly and unambiguously defined and delimited. To recast the discourse in more rigorous terms, one could even do without the term “commons” altogether.
prof. Stefano Moroni
Politecnico di Milano
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This page is a summary of: Untangling the commons: three different forms of commonality, The Review of Austrian Economics, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-024-00639-1.
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