Acknowledgments

This volume has been several years in the making and we are grateful for having met many inspiring people along the way and for the help we have received. We would like to thank the editors of the Governing Knowledge Commons series for inviting us to contribute to the project and, in particular, appreciate Brett Frischmann’s continued encouragement. We thank Matt Gallaway at the Cambridge University Press for his support and we appreciate the detailed comments from the three referees. We are delighted to be a part of the Governing Knowledge Commons Research Coordination Network, a community of scholars that carries forward institutional analysis in spirit of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. In 2018, this volume received a kickstart from the workshop in Arlington, VA generously supported by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and with the invaluable support from Stefanie Haeffele, Malia Dalesandry, Alice Calder, Haley Larsen, and Connor Currie. Thanks to the generous support of the Mercatus Center we were able to meet with the contributors and spend a couple of days discussing the contents of this volume together. Later that year a smaller number of contributors gathered for a workshop on Markets as Knowledge Commons in Rotterdam, generously supported by the Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication. Finally, Kuchař would like to appreciate the opportunity to discuss the outlines of this volume at the 2019 Workshop on Growth in the Modern World that took place at the University of Buckingham. We especially appreciate the thoughts and observations that David Gindis, Matthias Klaes, and Deirdre McCloskey shared with us.