Research Catalog

Title

The contested commons : conversations between economists and anthropologists / edited by Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray.

Publication

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Bardhan, Pranab K.
• Ray, Isha.

Description

x, 289 pages; 26 cm

Subject

• Commons
• Natural resources, Communal
• Communication in international relations
• Economic anthropology
• Developing countries > Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Economists, Anthropologists, and the Contested Commons / Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray -- 2. Managing the Commons: The Role of Social Norms and Beliefs / Jean-Philippe Platteau -- 3. Sustainable Governance of Common-pool Resources: Context Method and Politics / Arun Agrawal -- 4. Cooperative Conversations: Outcomes and Processes in Economics and Anthropology / Isha Ray -- 5. Collective Action, Common Property, and Social Capital in South India: An Anthropological Commentary / David Mosse -- 6. Culture and Power in the Commons Debate / Amita Baviskar -- 7. A Simple Model of Collective Action / Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan -- 8. Revisiting Demsetz: Contextualizing Community-Private Ownership in Western India / Pranab Mukhopadhyay -- 9. Scale and Mobility in Defining the Commons / Vyjayanthi Rao and Arjun Appadurai -- 10. Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia / Vijayendra Rao -- 11. Interdisciplinarity as a Three-way Conversation: Barriers and Possibilities / Sharachchandra Lele -- 12. Feminism Spoken Here: Epistemologies for Interdisciplinary Development Research / Cecile Jackson -- 1. Social Norms and Cooperative Behavior: Notes from the Hinterland between Economics and Anthropology / Kaushik Basu -- 2. Sociologists and Economists on "the Commons" / Erik Olin Wright -- 3. CPR Institutions: Game-theory Constructs and Empirical Relevance / Nirmal Sengupta -- 4. Disciplinary Perspectives and Policy Design for Common-pool Resources Some Reflections / Kanchan Chopra -- 5. Understanding Common Property Resources and Their Management A Potential Bridge across Disciplinary Divides? / A. Vaidyanathan -- 6. 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.

ISBN

• 9781405157162 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 140515716X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007033295
• 40015165680

OCLC

• ocn166273660
• 166273660
• SCSB-9059457

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries