Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States - Hardcover

Wall, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745399363 ISBN 13: 9780745399362

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2018

Synopsis

Elinor Ostrom was both a groundbreaking thinker and one of the foremost economists of our age. The first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics, her revolutionary theorizing of the commons opened the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives on a massive scale. And yet, astonishingly, most modern radicals know little about her.
 
Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals fixes that injustice, revealing the indispensability of her work on green politics, alternative economics, and radical democracy. Derek Wall’s analysis of her theses addresses some of the common misconceptions of her work and reveals her strong commitment to a radical ideological framework. This helpful guide will engage scholars and activists across a range of disciplines, including political economy, political science, and ecology, as well as those keen to implement her work in practice. As activists continue to reject traditional models of centralized power, Ostrom’s theories will become even more crucial in creating economies that exist beyond markets and states.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Derek Wall teaches political economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is the International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the author of six books, including Economics After Capitalism, also published by Pluto Press.
 

Review:

“Derek Wall’s latest book is a fascinating insight into the only woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in alternatives to the neoliberal consensus, and for those who believe that democracy is more than just voting for a Government every few years.”

(Caroline Lucas, Co-Leader of the Green Party)

"Elinor Ostrom pioneered the radical proposition that human cooperation, self-governance, and sharing are economically and ecologically significant. Thanks to Derek Wall, we now have an astute interpretive overview of Ostrom's far-ranging scholarship on the commons: inspiration and guidance for a new generation of commons thinkers and activists."
  (David Bollier, Schumacher Center for a New Economics)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0745399363
• ISBN 13: 9780745399362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160