96 - Toward a More Cooperative Web3 with Maxwell Kanter, Sarah Hubbard, and George Oates
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Eleanor Ostrom's Eight Design Principles
The concept of a commons, a physical space, came into being where in a small group of humans they'd have a space that could be shared. A paper called The Tragedy of the Commons which was written by a biologist in 1968 declared that the commons will always fall apart because eventually somebody will take a part of that commons for themselves. But Eleanor Ostrom who came into the research world in sort of 80s and 90s said actually no, the commons needs to be managed by a group of independent humans. She did all kinds of really interesting study in the physical realm about folks who might have managed the same fishing spot or a bridge that ran over a lake. And what we tried
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