Reading Nobel prize economics for ordinary people.

I'm about to try and read Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons, but I don't have the guts to go it alone... The book looks at governance of natural resources and examines why resources used by many is an issue for policy analysts. Ostrom provides empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved, and examines successful and unsuccessful governance in the commons. Most interestingly, she proposes that in contrast to the tragedy of the commons argument, common pool problems can be solved by voluntary organizations rather than by a coercive state. Which kind of sounds like P2PU, to me...