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Working Papers

2012

1. Bosses and Kings: Asymmetric Power in Paired Common Pool and Public Good Games
   Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University View citations (1)

2010

2. Autobiography
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
3. Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences
   Also in Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2005) View citations (2)

2009

4. A polycentric approach for coping with climate change
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
5. ANALYZING COLLECTIVE ACTION
   2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China, International Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in Agricultural Economics (2010)
6. Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee View citations (12)
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2010)
7. Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

2007

8. The challenge of self-governance in complex, globalizing economies: Collection of revised papers of a PhD seminar
   Working Papers of the Institute of Forestry Economics, University of Freiburg, Institute of Forestry Economics
9. Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments
   Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
   See also Journal Article in Southern Economic Journal (2009)

2006

10. Beyond Formality and Informality
    Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (6)

2004

11. Communication and co-operation in a common-pool resource dilemma: A field experiment
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (3)
12. The Working Parts of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)
13. Understanding collective action
    2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
14. What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
    CAPRi working papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (10)
    Also in Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website (2004) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Agricultural Systems (2004)

2003

15. In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action
    CAPRi working papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Agricultural Systems (2004)

1994

16. From farmers' fields to data fields and back: A Synthesis of Participatory Information Systems for Irrigation and other Resources: Proceedings of an International Workshop held at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, Nepal, 21-26 March 1993
    IWMI Books, Reports, International Water Management Institute

Undated

17. Causes of Emissions from Agricultural Residue Burning in North-west India: Evaluation of a Technology Policy Response
    Working papers, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
18. Examining Private Participation in Embankment Maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans
    Working papers, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
19. Measuring Health Benefits from Air Pollution Reduction in Kathmandu Valley
    Working papers, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics

Journal Articles

Policies>1974

1. IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM THE CITIZEN'S POINT OF VIEW
   Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies, Policies>1974

2012

2. Coevolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics
   Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2012, 3, (54)
3. In Memoriam
   Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2012, 42, (4), 708-709
4. Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales?
   Economic Theory, 2012, 49, (2), 353-369
5. Par-delà les marchés et les États. La gouvernance polycentrique des systèmes économiques complexes
   Revue de l'OFCE, 2012, n° 120, (1), 13-72

2011

6. Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change
   Journal of Institutional Economics, 2011, 7, (03), 317-343
7. Dépasser le dilemme du Samaritain dans l'aide au développement. Overcoming the Samaritan's Dilemma in Development Aid
   Revue d’économie du développement, 2011, 25, (4), 5-18
8. Reflections on "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation"
   American Economic Review, 2011, 101, (1), 49-63 View citations (4)
9. Reprint of: A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries
   Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, (9), 1580-1589

2010

10. A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries
    Ecological Economics, 2010, 69, (12), 2624-2633 View citations (2)
11. Analyzing collective action
    Agricultural Economics, 2010, 41, (s1), 155-166 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper (2009)
12. Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal
    Policy Sciences, 2010, 43, (1), 1-25
13. Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
    American Economic Review, 2010, 100, (3), 641-72 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper (2009)
14. Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Excerpt)
    Transnational Corporations Review, 2010, 2, (2), 1-12
15. Organizational economics: applications to metropolitan governance
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2010, 6, (01), 109-115 View citations (1)
16. Revising theory in light of experimental findings
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (1), 68-72 View citations (1)

2009

17. Beyond the tragedy of the Commons
    ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 2009, LII, (1), 35-60 View citations (2)
18. La reglas que no se hace cumplir son mera palabrería
    Revista de Economía Institucional, 2009, 11, (21), 15-24
19. Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments
    Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 75, (4), 957-975 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper (2007)

2008

20. Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective
    Policy Sciences, 2008, 41, (1), 71-93 View citations (6)
21. Deliberation, learning, and institutional change: the evolution of institutions in judicial settings
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (3), 180-202
22. Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research
    World Development, 2008, 36, (1), 176-195 View citations (6)
23. INSTITUTIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    Economic Affairs, 2008, 28, (3), 24-31 View citations (3)

2007

24. Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2007, 3, (03), 239-264 View citations (3)
25. Graham R. Marshall, Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons, Earthscan;, London (2005) ISBN: 1844070956171, 184 pp
    Ecological Economics, 2007, 62, (3-4), 759-760

2006

26. The value-added of laboratory experiments for the study of institutions and common-pool resources
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006, 61, (2), 149-163 View citations (15)

2005

27. Local Enforcement and Better Forests
    World Development, 2005, 33, (2), 273-284 View citations (18)
28. Response to Zakir Husain and Rabindra Bhattacharya's "Common pool resources and contextual factors: Evolution of a fishermen's cooperative in Calcutta"
    Ecological Economics, 2005, 55, (2), 139-142

2004

29. In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action
    Agricultural Systems, 2004, 82, (3), 215-232 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
30. Ostrom and Ostrom on the Quest for Meaning in Public Choice
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2004, 63, (1), 105-147 View citations (2)
31. Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems: Lance H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling (Eds.), Island Press, Washington, DC, 2002, ISBN: 1559638575, 450 pp
    Ecological Economics, 2004, 49, (4), 488-491
32. What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
    Agricultural Systems, 2004, 82, (3), 307-326 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
33. ¿Qué traen las personas al juego? Experimentos de campo sobre la cooperación en los recursos de uso común
    REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD, 2004

2003

34. Heterogeneous Preferences and Collective Action
    Public Choice, 2003, 117, (3-4), 295-314 View citations (8)
35. Playing safe in coordination games:: the roles of risk dominance, payoff dominance, and history of play
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2003, 42, (2), 281-299 View citations (32)

2002

36. The evolution of norms within institutions: comments on Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich's
    Environment and Development Economics, 2002, 7, (01), 171-190

2001

37. Dilemma games: game parameters and matching protocols
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2001, 46, (4), 357-377 View citations (5)
38. The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal
    World Development, 2001, 29, (5), 747-765 View citations (48)

2000

39. Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000, 14, (3), 137-158 View citations (196)
40. The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey
    Ecological Economics, 2000, 32, (2), 217-239 View citations (17)
41. The power and limitations of proportional cutbacks in common-pool resources
    Journal of Development Economics, 2000, 62, (2), 515-533 View citations (5)
42. Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Fmntier. By Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 227. $49.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (04), 1149-1150
    Also in The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (04), 1149-1150 (2000)

1999

43. Human-ecosystem interactions: a dynamic integrated model
    Ecological Economics, 1999, 31, (2), 227-242 View citations (2)
44. Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social-ecological system
    Ecological Economics, 1999, 31, (2), 243-257 View citations (8)

1997

45. Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development
    Land Economics, 1997, 48, (1), 1-14 View citations (1)

1996

46. Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development
    World Development, 1996, 24, (6), 1073-1087 View citations (32)

1995

47. Development betrayed. The end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future: Richard B. Norgaard. Routledge, London. Hardback [UK pound]40.00, ISBN 0415 06861 4, Paperback [UK pound]12.99, ISBN 0 415 0682 2
    Ecological Economics, 1995, 12, (3), 251-252
48. Self-organization and Social Capital
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1995, 4, (1), 131-59 View citations (4)

1993

49. Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (4), 93-112 View citations (43)

1992

50. Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis
    Land Economics, 1992, 68, (3), 249-262 View citations (85)

1991

51. Rules and Games
    Public Choice, 1991, 70, (2), 121-49 View citations (12)

1990

52. Rent dissipation in a limited-access common-pool resource: Experimental evidence
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1990, 19, (3), 203-211 View citations (45)

1985

53. AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS
    Review of Policy Research, 1985, 4, (3), 412-416
54. Institutional Capacity And The Resolution Of A Commons Dilemma
    Review of Policy Research, 1985, 5, (2), 383-394 View citations (3)

1973

55. On the meaning and measurement of output and efficiency in the provision of urban police services
    Journal of Criminal Justice, 1973, 1, (2), 93-111

Books

2005

1. The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (16)

Edited books

2007

1. Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press

Chapters

2006

1. Governing Social-Ecological Systems
   Chapter 30 in Handbook of Computational Economics, 2006, vol. 2, pp 1465-1509 View citations (5)

2002

2. Common-pool resources and institutions: Toward a revised theory
   Chapter 24 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2002, vol. 2, Part 1, pp 1315-1339