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And Lettuce Is Nonanimal: Toward A Positive Theory Of Voluntary Action, Roger A. Lohmann
And Lettuce Is Nonanimal: Toward A Positive Theory Of Voluntary Action, Roger A. Lohmann
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Much recent conceptual and theoretical effort to identify and define the kinds of voluntary action that take place outside households, economic markets and governments has a consistent emphasis on negation: It seems to define these matters by what they are not: not for profit, or nonprofit, nongovernmental, unproductive, inefficient, examples of contract failure, market failure, government failure and more. This paper is a beginning effort to shift the emphasis to the positive and the describe and explain what voluntary action is and what it consists of. It proposes the beginnings of an economics of common goods production, and differentiates such …
A Comparison Of Two Different Theoretical Approaches To Commons, Roger A. Lohmann
A Comparison Of Two Different Theoretical Approaches To Commons, Roger A. Lohmann
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A comparison of elements of the commons theory approaches of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and Roger A. Lohmann.
Neighborhood Associations: The Foundation Of Community Development, Roger A. Lohmann
Neighborhood Associations: The Foundation Of Community Development, Roger A. Lohmann
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Neighborhood associations are one of the most ubiquitous types of voluntary organization. This paper reviews a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on the concept of neighborhood and the various organized expressions of neighborhood organizing in rural and urban communities.