> Putting the two together That's the key. Treating these as contradictory, as though Ostrom's work refutes the very possibility of TotC, is just weird. It's l

> Putting the two together That's the key. Treating these as contradictory, as though Ostrom's work refutes the very possibility of TotC, is just weird. It's like saying that the existence of a measles vaccine means that measles can't exist. Solutions don't apply themselves, even when well known and once ubiquitous. Hardin's idea and Ostrom's seem strongly complementary to me.