Elinor C. Ostrom, a Nobel prize winning political economist, made important contributions to common pool resources, economic governance, and polycentricity. Viviana A. Zelizer, a prominent economic sociologist, has done groundbreaking work on how culture shapes our economic lives. Together, the work of Ostrom and Zelizer spans the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and public policy by exploring the social relations and community-based organization of everyday life. Both scholars examine the norms, social connections, and cultural impacts of exchange and governance. This volume explores their contributions and builds off of their research programs to explore the social movements, community recovery, and war, and women’s issues across a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, history, and archaeology.
Inspired by Zelizer’s 2019 Ostrom Speaker Series lecture for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, this volume explores the connections between the work of Elinor Ostrom and Viviana Zelizer. Beginning with a lead chapter by Zelizer where she reflects on the connections between her work and Ostrom’s oeuvre, the volume brings together scholars who tease out some of the important concepts and implications of Ostrom and Zelizer’s research. This volume furthers economic inquiry by ensuring that the critical examinations of these timely and important themes are made available to students and scholars.
Author(s): Stefanie Haeffele, Virgil Henry Storr
Series: Mercatus Studies in Political and Social Economy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 331
City: Cham
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Connecting Elinor C. Ostrom and Viviana A. Zelizer
1.1 Connected Lives and Associational Beings
1.2 Structure of the Volume
Notes
Resources
2 Why and How Do Social Relations Matter for Economic Lives?
Notes
References
3 What Relational Work Brings to the Study of the Political Economy
3.1 From Separate Domains to Connected Systems
Separate Domains
Connected Systems
Constitutive Relations
3.2 From Constitutive Relationships to Relational Work
Gender, Race, and Political Economy
3.3 Political Economy as the Result of Intimate Relations
3.4 The Future of Political Economy
References
4 “Circuits of Commons”: Exploring the Connections Between Economic Lives and the Commons
4.1 A Brief Account of the Commons: Different Types, Similar Methods
4.2 A Brief Account of the Circuits of Commerce: Diverse Empirics, Similar Methods
4.3 A Common Understanding: Exploring the Possibility of Shared Legacies of Ostrom and Zelizer
4.4 Conclusions
Notes
References
5 Testing Circuits of Commerce in the Distant Past: Archaeological Understandings of Social Relationships and Economic Lives
5.1 Circuits of Commerce and Archaeological Data
Archaeology of the American Southern Plains, 1350–1700 AD
Dimensions of Circuits of Commerce in the Archaeological Record
Assessing Dimensions of Circuits of Commerce in the Archaeological Record
5.2 Untangling or Retangling Social and Economic Lives
References
6 Bringing the Family Back In: Political Economy and the Family in Liberal Theory
6.1 Elinor Ostrom and Viviana A. Zelizer on the Family
6.2 Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Family Theory
Adam Smith and the Family
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Family
6.3 Accounting for the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Economy: Sophie de Grouchy and Harriet Martineau
Sophie de Grouchy, Sympathy, and the Family
Everyday Economics: Harriet Martineau on the Family
6.4 Flaws in the Family: Liberalism, Freedom, and Economic Organization
Notes
References
7 Polycentric Institutions of Intimacy
7.1 Circuits of Commerce and Polycentric Governance
Rules and Shared Meaning
Scope, Boundary, and Other Meta-Rules
Negotiation and Co-production
Circuits of Commerce and Polycentric Governance
7.2 Application to Gender, Marriage, and Family
7.3 Implications for Discriminatory Law and Gender Hierarchies
7.4 Conclusion
Notes
References
8 Beyond Relief: Understanding the Cuban Diaspora’s Remittance-Sending Behavior
8.1 Surveying Cuban Americans on Remittances
8.2 Challenges to Remittance-Sending in Cuba
8.3 Funding Families Through Transnational Ties
8.4 Remittances as Economic Circuits
8.5 Policy Dynamics
8.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
9 The Economic Circuits of Social Movements
9.1 A Review of the Social Movements Literature
Theories of Social Movements
Activists as Rational and Social Actors
9.2 The Circuits of Social Movements in the Brazilian Amazon
Violence Against Social Movement Activists
An Insider’s Perspective into the Economic Circuits of Social Movements
9.3 Analysis of the Economic Circuits of Social Movement Activists
9.4 Conclusion
Note
References
10 Captains’ Mail Circuits: Examining Social Relations in Letter Transfer, 1700–1774
10.1 The Colonial Mail System
10.2 The Social Breadth of Captains’ Postal Service
10.3 Conclusion
Notes
References
11 Institutional Diversity in Social Coordination Post-disaster
11.1 Understanding Collective Action
Alternative Frameworks
Disaster Recovery: New Understanding and Framework
11.2 Methods and Context
Hurricane Katrina
Superstorm Sandy
11.3 Collective Action After Disaster: Cases from Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy
Broadmoor, New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Bayswater, New York Following Superstorm Sandy
11.4 Conclusion
Notes
References
12 Wartime Governance in the Syrian Civil War
12.1 Institutional Arrangements and Collective Action
12.2 Social Relations and Governance
12.3 Wartime Institutions
12.4 Wartime Institutions in the Syrian Civil War
12.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
13 The Institutional Diversity of Online E-commerce Platforms in China
13.1 E-trust Through the Lens of Institutional Diversity
E-trust Under Centralized Mechanisms: Reputation and Feedback
E-trust Under Decentralized Mechanisms: Personal Ties and Repeated Transactions
13.2 Studying Two Types of E-governance Structures in China
13.3 Alibaba: Private but Centralized Legal Structure
13.4 WeChat: A Decentralized Acquaintance-Based E-commerce Network
13.5 Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
