{"id":1928,"date":"2009-10-13T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2009-10-13T20:55:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:55:14","slug":"repostcharter-cities-skyhooks-versus-cranes-the-nobel-prize-for-elinor-ostrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/13\/repostcharter-cities-skyhooks-versus-cranes-the-nobel-prize-for-elinor-ostrom\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Charter Cities: Skyhooks versus Cranes: The Nobel Prize for Elinor Ostrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A typical conclusion was that rules that assign property rights and rules that let people trade lead to good outcomes. What\u2019s the skyhook? That people will follow the rules. Why would they respect the property rights of someone else? We had no idea. We might have had in mind something like this: police officers will arrest people who don\u2019t follow the rules. But this is just another skyhook. Who are these police officers? Why do they follow rules? This is not an idle concern. Elinor showed that there are lots of important cases where people follow rules about ownership without police officers. <strong>One of the central challenges in understanding failures of economic development is that in many places, police officers don\u2019t follow the rules they are meant to enforce.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/chartercities.org\/blog\/72\/skyhooks-versus-cranes-the-nobel-prize-for-elinor-ostrom\">Charter Cities: Skyhooks versus Cranes: The Nobel Prize for Elinor Ostrom<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical conclusion was that rules that assign property rights and rules that let people trade lead to good outcomes. What\u2019s the skyhook? That people will follow the rules. Why would they respect the property rights of someone else? We had no idea. We might have had in mind something like this: police officers will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/13\/repostcharter-cities-skyhooks-versus-cranes-the-nobel-prize-for-elinor-ostrom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Charter Cities: Skyhooks versus Cranes: The Nobel Prize for Elinor Ostrom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}