Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia

Most economists think of common property as physical - a body of water, a forest - and as bounded within geographic space. In this paper, building on work in social theory, the author argues that common property can also be social-defined within symbolic space. People can be bound by well-defined sy...

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Main Author: Rao, Vijayendra
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9212