Good Market serves as a marketplace commons for the new economy movement. The curation process and online platform are shared resources that are governed by the community that uses them.
For decades, mainstream economists argued that common resources are inevitably depleted or exploited. They claimed the only options were privatization, letting a private owner manage a resource, or nationalization, letting the state manage through top-down regulation.
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics for showing an alternative. She studied traditional communities that have successfully and sustainably managed natural resource commons, like forests, fields, grazing lands, irrigation systems, and fisheries, and found they shared design principles. The same principles are evident in modern digital commons like Wikipedia and free and open source software projects.