individuals ‘‘decide on the provision, production, and allocation of public goods using
exactly the same decision-making processes they would use when exchanging private
goods in a market setting?’’ (McGinnis and Ostrom 2012, p. 20). It may be the case that
they use the same processes. But this is something to be investigated not postulated,
something to be established, not assumed. With that, Vincent Ostrom was signaling a
direction that is currently materialized with Smith’s (2009) ‘‘ecological rationality’’ perspective
or, Gigerenzer’s (2008) research on heuristics and decision making.