Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you boug…

- Elinor Ostrom

What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately…

- Elinor Ostrom

Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and…

- Elinor Ostrom

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

- Elinor Ostrom

In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sancti…

- Elinor Ostrom

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

- Elinor Ostrom

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

- Elinor Ostrom

There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spo…

- Elinor Ostrom