Agoras in the World – Institute for 21st Century Agoras

The Irony of the Predicament of Detroit

tomflanagan — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:02:00 +0000

In a recent blog titled “Detroit and the Temptation of Ruin,” Tufts University civics scholar Peter Levine speaks of art, poverty and hopes for renewal. The story, as Levine notes, is tragic in the Aristotelian sense – local art and architecture documents a rise to power, a celebrated era, and a collapse to “700,000 people

Elinor Ostrom’s Legacy of the Commons

tomflanagan — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:28:20 +0000

At this time in history, 78 is still far too young an age to be swept into the future. For four decades, Elinor and her colleagues have been slaying a myth that was breathed into life by Ecologist Garrett Hardin‘s misunderstanding of the nature of “The Tragedy of the Commons.” The myth is that people