Honoring Elinor Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom / Prolineserver 2010 / Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA A collective sigh of sadness went around the Creative Commons community yesterday when we heard that Elinor Ostrom passed away. Elinor is greatly admired for her pioneering studies on the governance of common-pool resources (the Commons) and collective action across the fields of economics, … Read More “Honoring Elinor Ostrom”

Creative Commons at the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues Congress

Last month, CC participated in the yearly SERCI congress, which took place in Bilbao, Spain. SERCI is the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues. The SERCI congress is therefore intended to allow researchers to discuss their ongoing work with their peers and to further academic alliances between them for the benefit of future research … Read More “Creative Commons at the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues Congress”

CC's Contribution to Welfare, Field-by-Field: The Separate Contribution to Collaboration & Sharing

You have probably already noticed that through this series of posts we are proceeding along a trend from general high-level questions to the more practical ones of measurement and evaluation. So, it shouldn’t surprise you that our next nuts-and-bolts step is to start touring the different fields in which CC is active and analyzing its … Read More “CC's Contribution to Welfare, Field-by-Field: The Separate Contribution to Collaboration & Sharing”

Investigating CC's Welfare Impact: Quantity, Quality and Variability Measures

CC has recently started thinking more rigorously about its contribution to the world. See the first, second and third posts in this series for an introduction. In my former post I spent quite a few words trying to explain where I believe CC should and shouldn’t venture looking for the proper metrics that will efficaciously … Read More “Investigating CC's Welfare Impact: Quantity, Quality and Variability Measures”

Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded today to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their research on economic governance. Ostrom’s award is particularly exciting, for it cites her study of the commons. Commons? That sounds familiar! Ostrom’s pioneering work mostly concerns the governance of common-pool resources — resources that are rivalrous (i.e., scarce, … Read More “Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"”