#moc
- Ascent of civilization narrative
A recurring story in which civilization advances through successive stages toward greater power and technological capacity.
- Collective action bibliography
Annotated list of the books and papers this knowledge base draws on, grouped by theme, with a note on what each is good for and how far it has been read here.
- Collective action in practice
Real attempts at cooperation at scale — what worked, what didn't, and what the difference turned on.
- Cooperation at scale
The mechanisms that sustain cooperation, and where each one stops working.
- Cultural evolution
How culture solved collective action at scales no individual mechanism could reach.
- Game theory basics
The formal apparatus behind collective action problems, and what it does and doesn't explain.
- Governing the commons
How real communities manage shared resources, and why the standard tragedy story is incomplete.
- Kemp and the rise of the state as collective action failure
Notes reading the origin of the early state, via Luke Kemp and James C. Scott, as a collective action problem.
- Patterns of collective action
A two-level typology of collective action problems. The top level is a greed/fear map of four games plus a taking-or-building axis; the second level is group size, aggregation, the shape of returns, information and repetition; next to it sit principal-agent and second-order problems.
