(1) Why make models Sen(Development as Freedom), Ostrom (Governing the Commons)& Schelling (Strategy of Conflict) all rely on models. How? What lessons do they draw from examining models? What have you learned about thinking with models from reading their work?
(2) Both Calvert and Ostrom gives us grounds for recognizing institutional pluralism. Their arguments are quite different however. Do you find their arguments persuasive? Why or why not? Which do you find more persuasive? Why?
(3) We started the semester reading Anderson and the Manifesto “Democratize, Decommodify, Remediate.” What could those authors learn from reading Dow’s Governing the Firm? What “normative” lessons? What empirical/explanatory lessons?
Reading:
Q1. Ostrom 1990 Governing the Commons [Chapters 1-6]
Amartya Sen 1999. Development as Freedom
Thomas Schelling 1960 The Strategy of Conflict
