New book by Tine De Moor: 'The Dilemma of the Commoners'
A new book by historian Prof. (Economic and Social History) will be published at Cambridge 木瓜福利影视 Press, entitled The Dilemma of the Commoners: Understanding the Use of Common Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective. In this publication, De Moor aims to link the historical debate about the long-term evolution of commons to the present-day debates on common-pool resources.
Commons now and then
One of the classic problems in social science is known as 'the dilemma of the commons', in which land, water, and other resources held jointly by social or economic segments tend to be depleted sooner and to a greater extent than privately held assets.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many aspects of western European society changed fundamentally, including the abolition of common-property rights, which in itself was related to social and economic shifts in that same society.
This book intends to put the debate on commons, commoners, and the disappearance of both throughout early modern and modern northwestern Europe in a new light, through new approaches and innovative methodologies. De Moor aims to link the historical debate about the long-term evolution of commons to the present-day debates on common-pool resources, as well as touching upon various disciplines within the social sciences that work on commons issues.
- Title: The Dilemma of the Commoners: Understanding the Use of Common Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective
- Author: Tine De Moor
- ISBN: 9781107022164
- Publisher: 2015,