Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures Spring 2016
Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures Spring 2016
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From David Price
Conventional wisdom holds that democracy endures in rich countries but is unstable in poor ones. Building on Ansell and Samuels (2014), we suggest that the sources of… -
From David Price
In his article “Virginia, Rochester, and Bloomington” (Public Choice, 1988), William C. Mitchell wrote: Aside from the family analogy, it seems that three… -
From David Price
“Public utility” and “natural monopoly” have been misused in U.S. telecommunications policy debates. Opponents of network neutrality… -
From David Price
We analyze the economic determinants and long-run e↵ects of prior appropriation surface water rights from 1852 to 2013 and show how formal property rights… -
From David Price
Over a million square kilometers of the non-sovereign seafloor is under mineral exploration licenses and, by some assessments, an additional four million square… -
From David Price
We argue that the imposition of administrative boundaries on a policy domain has the potential to exacerbate cooperation and coordination dilemmas conditional on the… -
From David Price
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration to poverty, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why… -
From David Price
Japan has long been the most important ally of the United States in East Asia and it is widely viewed in Washington as a pillar of stability in the Asia-Pacific region.… -
From David Price
Over the last few decades, officials in environmental, health, and safety agencies at the federal and state levels have tried to promote public health protection…