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Ostrom not only had to be right, accurate, and her method scientifically correct, she would have also had to paint her findings in a patina of ideologically acceptable shade.

The third option is that ideologically motivated behaviour is a simpler explanation for rationalisations that inevitably sound rational, tailor made to fit an ideological model, not facts, science, or economics. https://social.coop/media/quO2rsKrfXAW0JbjcgM