Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals

Book launch of "Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets & States" by Derek Wall (published by Pluto Press Paperback ISBN: 9780745399355 Hardcover ISBN: 9780745399362 eBook ISBN: 9781786801234) 

 Friday 1st December 2017 at Word Bookshop, 314 New Cross Road, London, SE14 6AF. 

 About the book 

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her theorising of the commons has been celebrated as groundbreaking and opening the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives, yet, many radicals know little about her. This book redresses this, revealing the indispensability of her work for green politics, left economics and radical democracy. Ostrom has often been viewed as a conservative or managerial thinker; but Derek Wall’s analysis of her work reveals a how it is invaluable for developing a left political programme in the twenty-first century. Central to Ostrom’s work was the move ‘beyond panaceas’; transforming institutions to widen participation, promote diversity and favour cooperation over competition. She regularly challenged academia as individualist, narrow and elitist and promoted a radical take on education, based on participation. Her investigations into how we share finite resources has radical implications for the Green movement and her rubric for a functioning collective ownership is highly relevant in order in achieving radical social change.

 About Derek Wall Derek 

Wall is the author of numerous books including Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals (Pluto, 2017), Economics After Capitalism (Pluto, 2015), The Rise of the Green Left (Pluto, 2010) and The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom (Routledge, 2014). He teaches Political Economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and was International Co-ordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales.

   

 "Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets & States" by Derek Wall url:https://youtu.be/nEUInV8dV1g

   

 "Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals" by Derek Wall, questions & discussion url:https://youtu.be/RwC4_NLFN_w

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