Lesson 7: Common Pool Resources

In Lesson 7 Bobbi Herzberg studies common pool resources, a relevant problem in the field of social science. She also presents the principles that Elinor and Vicent Ostrom determined where necessary to self-govern. Herberg shares the background of how the Ostroms started their work on polycentrism studies, institutional analysis, fieldwork, and their interest to figure out how people had methods to govern themselves.