@techreport{Ostrom2005Unlocking,
abstract = {Unlocking human potential requires a rich network of institutional arrangements in both private and public spheres. Opening the private sphere to entrepreneurship and complex market organization is well understood as a key to increasing the level and quality of private goods available to consumers. Opening the public sphere to entrepreneurship and innovation at local, regional, and international levels is also a key to increasing the level and quality of public goods \textendash{} e.g., peace, safety, and health \textendash{} available to citizens. This paper reviews studies of urban service delivery that have repeatedly found communities of individuals who have self-organized to provide and co-produce surprisingly good local services. In addition to unlocking individual freedom, we need to unlock the public sector from rigid, top-down, hierarchical organization.},
address = {Helsinki},
author = {Elinor Ostrom},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
isbn = {9291906700},
keywords = {H4; H7; D73; D78; 330; entrepreneurship; urban public services; polycentricity},
language = {eng},
number = {2005/01},
publisher = {UNU-WIDER},
title = {Unlocking public entrepreneurship and public economies},
type = {WIDER Discussion Papers // World Institute for Development Economics (UNU-WIDER)},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52899},
year = {2005}
}
