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The Conversation Continues at Cato Unbound --- Constitution Making From the Ground Up

|Peter Boettke|

The dialogue on public reason liberalism continues, and I stress the importance of constitution making from the ground up following Elinor Ostrom's path breaking work.

Posted by on October 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM |

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Two of your GMU colleagues already explained why people do not act as Aumann's theory might predict:
http://hanson.gmu.edu/deceive.pdf

Posted by: Wonks Anonymous | October 20, 2011 at 05:59 PM

Terrific piece, Peter.

A lot said, and said very well.

Posted by: Greg Ransom | October 20, 2011 at 11:32 PM

Agreed. Pete, this is one of your clearest and most idea-packed explanations of the Ostrom point and its connections to Austrian/Virginia political economy that I've seen you write.

Posted by: Steve Horwitz | October 21, 2011 at 09:36 AM

This sentence in particular: "My point is that while we may disagree about the form of rules of property use, ultimately social order turns on the legitimacy and enforcement of the function of rules that mimic what a private property system would produce."

Posted by: Steve Horwitz | October 21, 2011 at 09:41 AM

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