Spectrum anarchy: why self-governance of the radio spectrum works better than we think

Bustamante, Pedro; Gomez, Marcela; Murtazashvili, Ilia; Weiss, Martin B. H.

doi:10.1017/s1744137420000259

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“…Each of these potential applications of blockchain in property rights depends on recording land ownership in the first place, as well as digitalization of identification, which, as we've seen, depends on the government or a trusted party. In addition, blockchain has features of a knowledge commons, which applies the logic of the resource commons to other domains, including intellectual property (Madison et al, 2010) and technology (Bustamante et al, 2020). One way to think of blockchain is that it creates a framework for essential knowledge about the property to be shared, thus increasing the value of property rights (Allen et al, 2021b).…”

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Government by Code? Blockchain Applications to Public Sector Governance

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Studies of blockchain governance can be divided into analyses of the governance of blockchains (such as rules and power dynamics within a given network) and governance by blockchains (such as how blockchains can be implemented to improve self-governance of community-based peer production networks). Less emphasis has been placed on applications of distributed ledgers to public sector governance. Our review clarifies that the decentralization and distributive features that enable blockchains to link up loosely connected private organizations and public agencies to improve efficiency and transparency of government transactions. However, most blockchain applications lack clear advantages over the conventional digital recording of information. In addition, our review highlights that blockchain applications in public sector governance are potentially vast, though in most instances, the existing applications have not extended much beyond limited-scale pilots. We conclude with a call for the construction of indexes of public sector implementations of blockchains, as none yet exist, as well as for additional research to understand why governments have not deployed blockchains more widely.

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“…In an interview with Levi (2010), she recounted that the first time she heard Hardin she "was somewhat taken aback" because her and Vincent's work proved Hardin was wrong. 4 Elinor Ostrom and other social scientists challenged the frame set by Hardin by asking two foundational sets of questions: First, how well does the tragedy of the commons allegory describe reality? Is it a useful theory for making predictions about real-world behavior of individuals sharing common-pool resources?…”

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Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years

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2019

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons” (1968) has been incredibly influential generally and within economics, and it remains important despite some historical and conceptual flaws. Hardin focused on the stress population growth inevitably placed on environmental resources. Unconstrained consumption of a shared resource—a pasture, a highway, a server—by individuals acting in rational pursuit of their self-interest can lead to congestion and, worse, rapid depreciation, depletion, and even destruction of the resources. Our societies face similar problems, with respect to not only environmental resources but also infrastructures, knowledge, and many other shared resources. In this article, we examine how the tragedy of the commons has fared within the economics literature and its relevance for economic and public policies today. We revisit the original piece to explain Hardin’s purpose and conceptual approach. We expose two conceptual mistakes he made: conflating resource with governance and conflating open access with commons. This critical discussion leads us to the work of Elinor Ostrom, the recent Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, who spent her life working on commons. Finally, we discuss a few modern examples of commons governance of shared resources.

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“…Currently, we are in what can be called a liberal licensing regimeexcludable rights and markets for them are the predominant institutional arrangementbut spectrum has always involved a continuum from excludable rights to sharing. Indeed, much of spectrum is shared, and much of the policy debate is about how to increase opportunities to share spectrum (Bustamante et al, 2020). Those sharing institutions were initially an idea about what cannot or should not be owned by an individual but shared by a community.…”

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Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’

Murtazashvili

2022

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Bart Wilson argues that property is based on custom, not rights. Wilson (2022) further argues for the primacy of property over property rights. Wilson's research, including the recent book, The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind (2020), is a significant and arguably pathbreaking contribution to the vast literature on property and property rights. It also falls into the trap of economic arguments that unnecessarily devalue legal rights. I ague that we can all agree that ideas about property are always important to understanding property rights but that property rights still rule. This is in part because those who have property typically care most about property rights. I also argue that Wilson's concept of property is too focused on private ownership, rather than shared ownership or even government ownership of property. I suggest that considering the idea of sharing and other legitimate forms of property ownership alongside private ownership would generalize Wilson's constructivist theory of property and improve our ability to explain the diversity of property rights.

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Spectrum anarchy: why self-governance of the radio spectrum works better than we think

Cited by 15 publications

References 71 publications

Government by Code? Blockchain Applications to Public Sector Governance

Government by Code? Blockchain Applications to Public Sector Governance

Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years

Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’

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