James M Acheson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3616484 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James M Acheson |
| PRENOMES | James M |
| SOBRENOME | Acheson |
| ASSINATURA | ACHESON J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Maine |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 516 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Human Ecology of the Commons
The Lobster Fiefs Revisited
The Question of the Commons
Offshore wind power development in Maine
In this article, we explore the social, cultural, and political factors promoting and impeding development of offshore wind power in Maine, using the perspective of rational choice theory. Offshore floating wind platforms involve a new technology still in the experimental stage. Developing offshore wind power will require having very large scale organizations to build and finance wind farms capable of generating and transmitting electricity at co…
Private Land and Common Oceans
In the literature on property rights, there is general consensus framed by people such as Boserup and Demsetz that common property regimes will change to private property regimes when resources are scarce and population increases. This is mostly correct where land tenure is concerned. However, there are many cases where common property regimes continue even though the population has grown and resources have become scarcer. Ocean areas are almost …
The cost of useful knowledge and collective action in three fisheries
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
Bibliography: p. [169]-176
Failure and Success in Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Maine
Pam Puntenney is contributing editor of "Views on Policy," the AAA Committee on Public Policy column in Anthropology News. Keywords: ecology and environment,natural resource management,public policy
Factions, Models and Resource Regulation
Causes of Deforestation
Lobster and Groundfish Management in the Gulf of Maine
Many of the world’s most important fisheries are in a state of crisis. The Maine lobster industry is one of the very few exceptions, with catches at an all time high. Much of the success of this fishery stems from effective conservation legislation, passed largely through the long-term lobbying activities of powerful factions within the industry itself. In stark contrast is the Maine groundfishery, where stocks and catches have never been so low.…
Institutional Failure in Resource Management
Many of the world's natural resources are in a state of crisis. The solution to this crisis is to develop effective management institutions, but there is no consensus on what those institutions are. Some economists favor solving resource-management problems through the institution of private property; others advocate central government control; and many anthropologists see local-level management as the solution. In this review, I argue that all t…
Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea
Spatial Strategies and Territoriality in the Maine Lobster Industry
Although territoriality of one kind or another is found in every society, our understanding of the way territorial systems come into being remains undeveloped. In this article, we use game theory to understand the evolution of institutional arrangements in the Maine lobster fishery. Nash equilibrium of models explains the three stages observed in the local-scale informal system of the past century. These stages are the result of decisions to inva…
Strategies, Conflict, and the Emergence of Territoriality
In this article, we use game theory to understand the emergence of various kinds of territorial arrangements in the Maine lobster fishery during the past century. Using the Nash equilibria of models of the fishery as our theoretical framework, we show that informal territorial arrangements in this fishery went through three sequential stages. These stages are the result of decisions by groups of lobster fishermen to defend fishing areas or invade…
Theory in economic anthropology
Chapter 1 Introduction: Theory in Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century Part 2 Part I: The New Institutionalism Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Property Rights and Incentives for Agricultural Growth: Women Farmer's Crop Control and their Use of Agricultural Inputs Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, Problems and Possibilities Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Experimental Economics: A Powerful New Method for Theory Testing in Ant…
The Anatomy of the Maine Lobster Comanagement Law
In fisheries management circles, there is growing interest in comanagement in which authority for managing fish stocks is shared between government agencies and the fishing industry. This article discusses the implementation of the new comanagement system in the Maine lobster industry, which was initiated in 1995. The law has clearly been successful in that lobster fishermen have been able to generate rules to constrain their own exploitive effor…
Distribution Fights, Coordination Games, and Lobster Management
Currently, one of the most important issues in resource management is: under what conditions will people conserve the resources on which their livelihood depends? In all too many cases, overexploitation is the rule. All around the world fish stocks, forests, grasslands, air, soils, wildlife, and water quality have been seriously degraded by human beings. Environmental disaster is not inevitable, however, for in many cases those who are dependent …
Economics
The Politics of Managing the Maine Lobster Industry
Household organization and budget structures in a Purepecha pueblo
In Cuanajo, Michoacan, Mexico, where the local furniture industry has undergone substantial expansion, households vary widely in size, financial practices, and levels of economic success. Households use three different kinds of funds: General, Personal, and Obligated Funds. Each has different characteristics. Households of different sizes and levels of business success use different kinds of funds, which are combined in different ways. In this ar…
People of the Bays and Headlands
Order out of Chaos
SThe current crisis in the world's fisheries indicates the need for a different management method than that now used by Western scientists, which regulates the quantity of fish taken. The authors propose a method called parametric management, which takes into account the complex, chaotic nature offish stocks and emphasizes preserving regular biological processes in the life cycle of fish by controlling how people fish. Supporting data come from 2…
Household Ecology
Lake Erie Fishermen
Anthropology of Fishing
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Question of the commons
Institutional Failure in Resource Management
Many of the world's natural resources are in a state of crisis. The solution to this crisis is to develop effective management institutions, but there is no consensus on what those institutions are. Some economists favor solving resource-management problems through the institution of private property; others advocate central government control; and many anthropologists see local-level management as the solution. In this review, I argue that all t…
Order out of Chaos
SThe current crisis in the world's fisheries indicates the need for a different management method than that now used by Western scientists, which regulates the quantity of fish taken. The authors propose a method called parametric management, which takes into account the complex, chaotic nature offish stocks and emphasizes preserving regular biological processes in the life cycle of fish by controlling how people fish. Supporting data come from 2…
Private Land and Common Oceans
In the literature on property rights, there is general consensus framed by people such as Boserup and Demsetz that common property regimes will change to private property regimes when resources are scarce and population increases. This is mostly correct where land tenure is concerned. However, there are many cases where common property regimes continue even though the population has grown and resources have become scarcer. Ocean areas are almost …
Limited Good or Limited Goods? Response to Economic Opportunity in a Tarascan Pueblo 1
This article describes the differential response to new economic opportunities in Cuanajo, a Tarascan Indian community in Michoacán, Mexico. It is argued here that blocks to development are primarily economic in nature, not cultural or cognitive (e.g., “limited good”) as has been asserted by others working in the area. When real opportunities became available, some individuals responded to them. Such positive forces lead us to reevaluate some bas…
Strategies, Conflict, and the Emergence of Territoriality
In this article, we use game theory to understand the emergence of various kinds of territorial arrangements in the Maine lobster fishery during the past century. Using the Nash equilibria of models of the fishery as our theoretical framework, we show that informal territorial arrangements in this fishery went through three sequential stages. These stages are the result of decisions by groups of lobster fishermen to defend fishing areas or invade…
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
Accounting Concepts and Economic Opportunities in a Tarascan Village
One factor influencing business decisions in Cuanajo, Michoacán is the native system of accounts. While accounting systems influence many areas of business decision making, their impact can be most readily seen in analyzing business entry choices. The degree to which accounting systems influence perceptions of opportunities is demonstrated by comparing the local view of business possibilities derived from the native system of accounts (the "emic"…
The Politics of Managing the Maine Lobster Industry
Technical innovation in the New England fin-fishing industry
Studies of the diffusion of innovations have produced very inconsistent results. Downs and Mohr state that the problem lies in the way innovation is conceived and argue that the diffusion of innovations can only be understood by considering the match, or compatability, between the innovations and their potential adopters, and not by studying the innovations or adopters separately and out of context. Our study of the diffusion of 18 technical inno…
Spatial Strategies and Territoriality in the Maine Lobster Industry
Although territoriality of one kind or another is found in every society, our understanding of the way territorial systems come into being remains undeveloped. In this article, we use game theory to understand the evolution of institutional arrangements in the Maine lobster fishery. Nash equilibrium of models explains the three stages observed in the local-scale informal system of the past century. These stages are the result of decisions to inva…
Distribution Fights, Coordination Games, and Lobster Management
Currently, one of the most important issues in resource management is: under what conditions will people conserve the resources on which their livelihood depends? In all too many cases, overexploitation is the rule. All around the world fish stocks, forests, grasslands, air, soils, wildlife, and water quality have been seriously degraded by human beings. Environmental disaster is not inevitable, however, for in many cases those who are dependent …
Reply to George Foster
Causes of Deforestation
The Anatomy of the Maine Lobster Comanagement Law
In fisheries management circles, there is growing interest in comanagement in which authority for managing fish stocks is shared between government agencies and the fishing industry. This article discusses the implementation of the new comanagement system in the Maine lobster industry, which was initiated in 1995. The law has clearly been successful in that lobster fishermen have been able to generate rules to constrain their own exploitive effor…
The Question of the Commons
Offshore wind power development in Maine
In this article, we explore the social, cultural, and political factors promoting and impeding development of offshore wind power in Maine, using the perspective of rational choice theory. Offshore floating wind platforms involve a new technology still in the experimental stage. Developing offshore wind power will require having very large scale organizations to build and finance wind farms capable of generating and transmitting electricity at co…
New Directions in Economic Anthropology? A Comment on Kunkel
Reply to Mary Lee Nolan
Limited Good or Limited Goods? Response to Economic Opportunity in a Tarascan Pueblo 1
This article describes the differential response to new economic opportunities in Cuanajo, a Tarascan Indian community in Michoacán, Mexico. It is argued here that blocks to development are primarily economic in nature, not cultural or cognitive (e.g., “limited good”) as has been asserted by others working in the area. When real opportunities became available, some individuals responded to them. Such positive forces lead us to reevaluate some bas…
Accounting Concepts and Economic Opportunities in a Tarascan Village
One factor influencing business decisions in Cuanajo, Michoacán is the native system of accounts. While accounting systems influence many areas of business decision making, their impact can be most readily seen in analyzing business entry choices. The degree to which accounting systems influence perceptions of opportunities is demonstrated by comparing the local view of business possibilities derived from the native system of accounts (the "emic"…
Reply to Mary Lee Nolan
Reply to George Foster
The lobster fiefs
New Directions in Economic Anthropology? A Comment on Kunkel
Anthropology of Fishing
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Technical innovation in the New England fin-fishing industry
Studies of the diffusion of innovations have produced very inconsistent results. Downs and Mohr state that the problem lies in the way innovation is conceived and argue that the diffusion of innovations can only be understood by considering the match, or compatability, between the innovations and their potential adopters, and not by studying the innovations or adopters separately and out of context. Our study of the diffusion of 18 technical inno…
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
The Question of the commons
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
The Question of the Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
Lake Erie Fishermen
Household Ecology
Household organization and budget structures in a Purepecha pueblo
In Cuanajo, Michoacan, Mexico, where the local furniture industry has undergone substantial expansion, households vary widely in size, financial practices, and levels of economic success. Households use three different kinds of funds: General, Personal, and Obligated Funds. Each has different characteristics. Households of different sizes and levels of business success use different kinds of funds, which are combined in different ways. In this ar…
People of the Bays and Headlands
Order out of Chaos
SThe current crisis in the world's fisheries indicates the need for a different management method than that now used by Western scientists, which regulates the quantity of fish taken. The authors propose a method called parametric management, which takes into account the complex, chaotic nature offish stocks and emphasizes preserving regular biological processes in the life cycle of fish by controlling how people fish. Supporting data come from 2…
Economics
The Politics of Managing the Maine Lobster Industry
Distribution Fights, Coordination Games, and Lobster Management
Currently, one of the most important issues in resource management is: under what conditions will people conserve the resources on which their livelihood depends? In all too many cases, overexploitation is the rule. All around the world fish stocks, forests, grasslands, air, soils, wildlife, and water quality have been seriously degraded by human beings. Environmental disaster is not inevitable, however, for in many cases those who are dependent …
The Anatomy of the Maine Lobster Comanagement Law
In fisheries management circles, there is growing interest in comanagement in which authority for managing fish stocks is shared between government agencies and the fishing industry. This article discusses the implementation of the new comanagement system in the Maine lobster industry, which was initiated in 1995. The law has clearly been successful in that lobster fishermen have been able to generate rules to constrain their own exploitive effor…
Theory in economic anthropology
Chapter 1 Introduction: Theory in Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century Part 2 Part I: The New Institutionalism Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Property Rights and Incentives for Agricultural Growth: Women Farmer's Crop Control and their Use of Agricultural Inputs Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, Problems and Possibilities Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Experimental Economics: A Powerful New Method for Theory Testing in Ant…
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