7.05: Chattanooga, China, and Subsidiarity

Localism is great! …but it is no panacea.

We look at everything from American racial history to the differences between Chattanooga’s and China’s “local” internets.

• The New Sewer Socialists, Evan Malmgren, Logic

• An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons, Nadia Eghbal, on Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

  Ostrom noticed there are many situations where common resources are allocated efficiently, without intervention from the market or state. She explores, through a series of case studies, why this occurred, and under what conditions we could recreate these situations.

• Bali” by Ryan Dugré
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.

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• Daniel Ellcey
• Jake Grant
• Jeremy W. Sherman
• Marnix Klooster
• Nathaniel Blaney
• Spencer Smith

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