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My comment here too:

Ostrom did not apply her work to electricity (correct me if I am wrong), and for a reason. It is not a 'commons' and was not before government intervention (mandatory open access) made it so.

Control areas to respect the physics of electricity were employed both before and after public utility regulation began a century or more ago. (There was no "market failure" that I know of to suggest de facto socialism was the way to go.)

If Ostrom was alive today and saw the experience of ISOs/RTOs, I doubt she would be impressed. So ... private property rights are just fine with electricity.

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Does China's policy of holding all land in common conform to Ostrom's Law?

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