Understanding Institutional Diversity Book

Notes as usual:

* I added this to my wishlist after E Ostrom won the nobel prize and I thought "Oh this field of study looks interesting". Then this didn't actually make it out of the wishlist for four years, and once I finally bought it, it took my almost a month to complete it.
* It _is_ interesting, but the book is meant for post graduate students in economics. I'm not sure if I got out of it what I was meant to get out of it.
* The first three to four chapters are heavy on theoretical frameworks and not meant to read casually.
* But the idea of modeling social norms and intrinsic and extrinsic motivation mathematically is charming
* The last two chapters deal with empirical field research on communities self-organising to manage their own common-pool resources and are an interesting list of what works and what doesn't and under what conditions (scale and social ties are the important variables that I noticed)
* The ADICO framework for rules is also interesting and may be of general application and use.