Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights" (Yale UP, 2022)
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The Fowl Is a Master Library
In 19 72, eleanor ostrom and her husband, vincent, are at the university indiana. They begin to host a workshop called the workshop of political economy. What they do is establish a bibliography that goes alongside the workshop. The fowl sets off to collect all this information for every ministry of agriculture everywhere in the world. If you need information about setting up a worker co operative, the fowl is going to supply you with best practices from all over. And it's both incredibly benal and actually astonishing in its ambitions. It has particular weaknesses, are not characteristic of the weaknesses of bureaucracy in the eighteenth century. One of them is that the scale of bureaucracy can
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