A Tale of Two Commons: Some Preliminary Hypotheses on the Long-Term Development of the Commons in Western and Eastern Europe, 1000-1900

Miguel Laborda Pemán and Tine De Moor

No 31, Working Papers from Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History

Abstract: In this article we offer a broad explanatory framework for the divergence in the development of institutions for collective action, in particular commons, in Eastern and Western Europe. The latter area was particularly early with the development of collective arrangements of natural resource management. We explain on the one hand the rapid and intensive development of such institutions west of the Elbe and on the other hand the rather slow and less intensive development on the eastern side.

Keywords: Institutions for Collective Action; Commons; Serfdom; Peasant Commune (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2012-06
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