Living Better Together

Stefanie Haeffele is Senior Research Fellow, Senior Program and Operations Director of Academic and Student Programs, and Senior Fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Virgil Henry Storr is the Vice President of Academic and Student Programs the Don C. Lavoie Senior Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at George Mason University.

“This volume by Stefanie Haeffele … makes the case that the two methodologies complement each other. … The volume is a fruitful collection of essays that build on a synthesis between Zelizer and Ostrom. The diverse views in this volume all come together to point at interdisciplinary work that can be done in light of these approaches. … it also provides examples of how diverse academic disciplines can create a common language to share their insights on related phenomena.” (Michael D. Thomas, The Independent Review, Vol. 28 (3), 2023-2024)

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Connecting Elinor C. Ostrom and Viviana A. Zelizer, Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr.- Chapter 2: Why and How do Social Relations Matter for Economic Lives? Viviana A. Zelizer.- Chapter 3: What Relational Work Brings to the Study of the Political Economy, Victoria Reyes.- Chapter 4: “Circuits of Commons”: Exploring the connections between economic lives and the commons, Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Valeria Morea, and Francesca Sabatini.- Chapter 5: Testing Circuits of Commerce in the Distant Past: Archaeological Understandings of Social Relationships and Economic Lives, Crystal A. Dozier.- Chapter 6: Bringing the Family Back In: Political Economy and the Family in Liberal Theory, Brianne Wolf.- Chapter 7: Polycentric Institutions of Intimacy, Jayme S. Lemke.- Chapter 8: Beyond Relief: Understanding the Cuban Diaspora’s Remittance Sending Behavior, Anne Hobson and Stefanie Haeffele.- Chapter 9: The Economic Circuits of Social Movements, V. Miranda Chase.- Chapter 10: Captains’ Mail Circuits: Examining Social Relations in Letter Transfer, 1700-1774, Hannah Knox Tucker.- Chapter 11: Institutional Diversity in Social Coordination Post-Disaster, Laura E. Grube.- Chapter 12: Wartime Governance in the Syrian Civil War, Jennifer L. Hudson.- Chapter 13: The Institutional Diversity of Online E-commerce Platforms in China, Minjun Yuan and Wanlin Lin.