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Elinor Ostrom — Governing the Commons (1990)

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## §SELF — miscsubjects portable reference

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**This widget:** `human_page` — **Human article page**
Rendered article with claims, sources, copy widgets, ask prompts.
- **article slug:** `ostrom-1990`
- **contains:** rendered article, copy widgets, claims, sources, ask prompts
- **how to use:** Use Copy for LLM or Copy system map — both paste without context.
- **read:** https://miscsubjects.com/a/ostrom-1990

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### Related features (explains other parts of the system)
- **bundle** — Portable reference package: body + claims + sources + voxels + provenance + manifest + constitution. · https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/ostrom-1990/bundle?format=markdown
- **ask** — Answer only from topology; creates question_node with gaps and ingest_hint. · https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/ostrom-1990/prompts
- **topology** — Claims, sources, anecdotes, user reports, related embeds, question graph slice — for ask/ROUTER. · https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/ostrom-1990/topology

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System notes

Groups manage shared resources without state coercion or privatization.

Eight design principles predict success in commons governance.

The tragedy of the commons is contingent, not universal.

Structure of institutions beats resource type in determining commons outcomes.

Cooperation in commons is enabled by conditional trust and reciprocity in repeated games, not altruism.

Ostrom's principles are post-hoc descriptive, not always predictive.

Evidence · 5 sources · swipe →chain · verify chain · provenance
Evidence ledger 8 · tier-ranked · API
system
Groups manage shared resources without state coercion or privatization.
sources: S1
system
Eight design principles predict success in commons governance.
sources: S1
system
The tragedy of the commons is contingent, not universal.
sources: S1, S2
system
Structure of institutions beats resource type in determining commons outcomes.
sources: S1
system
Cooperation in commons is enabled by conditional trust and reciprocity in repeated games, not altruism.
sources: S1, S3
3 more ranked claims
system0.80
Ostrom's principles are post-hoc descriptive, not always predictive.
sources: S1
speculative0.70
Modern global commons (climate, oceans, atmosphere) lack the social density and face-to-face accountability required by Ostrom's principles.
sources: S1
speculative0.60
Hardin's pessimism may hold for large-scale, anonymous populations where Ostrom's optimism is the exception, not the rule.
sources: S1, S2
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What does the ledger say about this (system tier): "Cooperation in commons is enabled by conditional trust and reciprocity in repeated games, not altruism."?
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ostrom-1990 · posted 2026-07-04 · updated 2026-07-17 · 1 prior revision
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