Ostrom Workshop in Europe
I just returned home from a one-day conference in Berlin organized by the Ostrom Workshop (OW) at Indiana University's European Gateway center. Six OW representatives, including myself, met with more than 20 of our European "Affiliated Faculty" members from eight different European countries, as well as representatives of European organizations, some of which have long-standing formal or informal relations with the Workshop and a few, such as UNESCO and the Land Economy Department at University of Cambridge, with which the Workshop is hoping to develop working relations. The meetings, organized by OW Director Scott Shackelford and Asst. Director Emily Castle, were extremely important because, between 2015 and 2020, many of our European affiliates felt alienated from the Workshop (as did I) largely because of Scott's predecessor as Director who had ignored them in restructuring the Workshop, narrowing its focus, eroding connections with longstanding affiliates, and gen...