This article explores current developments in theoretical thinking about the commons. It keys off contemporary reconsiderations of Garret Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” and Elinor Ostrom’s response to Hardin in Governing the Commons and later work. Hardin’s idea of a “tragedy” has received much criticism, especially from Ostrom herself; but Ostrom’s own work has also raised some questions in more recent commons literature. The key issue that emerges from this reconsideration revolves around the understanding of commons on the one hand as limited common regimes, central to Ostrom’s work, or on the other hand as open access, as espoused by more recent advocates of widespread access to information and communications networks.

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思考公地

本文探讨了关于公地的理论思考的当前发展。它开启了当代对加勒特·哈丁的“公地悲剧”的重新思考以及埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆在治理公地和后来的工作中对哈丁的回应。哈丁关于“悲剧”的想法受到了很多批评，尤其是来自奥斯特罗姆本人。但奥斯特罗姆自己的作品也在最近的公共文学中提出了一些问题。从这一重新考虑中出现的关键问题围绕着对公地的理解，一方面是有限的共同制度，是奥斯特罗姆工作的核心，另一方面是开放获取，正如最近广泛获取信息和通信的倡导者所支持的那样网络。