Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School

Jayme Lemke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Vlad Tarko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography (2017) and co-author of Capitalist Alternatives: Models, Taxonomies, Scenarios (2015).

• 1. Introduction: the Bloomington School in contextJayme Lemke and Vlad Tarko2. Public choice theory: reuniting Virginia and BloomingtonEmil Duhnea and Adam Martin3. New institutional economics: building from shared foundationsMichael D. McGinnis4. Elinor Ostrom as a behavioural economistVlad Tarko5. New economic sociology and the Ostroms: a combined approachAlice Calder and Virgil Henry Storr6. Foundations of social order: the Ostroms and John SearleAdrian Miroiu and Adelin Dumitru7. Environmental policy from a self-governance perspective Jayme Lemke and Jordan K. Lofthouse8. Learning from the socialist calculation debate: is efficiency in public economics possible?Peter J. Boettke9. Public administration from "intellectual crisis" to "contemporary "governance theory"Paul Dragos Aligica10. Rethinking federalism: social order through evolution or design?Rosolino A. Candela

A wonderful collection illuminating the diversity, complexity and inspiration provided by the work of both Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. It deserves to be read with care.