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Environment, climate & resourcesElinor Ostrom: Governing the Commons as a System Welfare Framework
STATUS · Manuscript in progressSSRN · Not yet posted
MECHANISM
Identify the incentive structure and the condition that would falsify the claim.
RULE CHANGE
Read the intervention only after the paper shows how the current payoff space fails to support system welfare.
READER USE
Use the summary to see where private gain creates system exposure, then check the study record.
Contribution — what this adds to the conversation
Provides a clean conceptual bridge between Ostrom and the Postnieks program; fills a gap in explicit welfare language for commons governance; contribution is synthetic and classificatory.
WHAT'S NEW · Reconstructing Ostrom as system-welfare framework and stating a boundary proposition is novel within the corpus; the connection to SAPM/Decision Accounting is original but builds on existing canon concepts.
The paper reconstructs Elinor Ostrom's design principles as a system-welfare framework for bounded commons. It states a formal boundary proposition that separates governable commons from system-welfare omission cases, and applies it to irrigation, fisheries, groundwater, data extraction, attention capture, and frontier AI. The result is a triage tool for distinguishing when self-governance can preserve welfare and when higher-layer intervention is needed.