Oakerson states, "The purpose of education is to build a bridge between generations, so as to preserve our accomplishments."
From 1985-88 he was a senior analyst with the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and directed the Commission's program on metropolitan government. He has previously taught at Marshall University and from 1988-92 was a scholar with the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indian University, Bloomington.
Oakerson is a former member of the Panel on Common Property Resources Management of the National Resource Council and a coeditor of Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice, and Policy (1992). From 1992-94 he served as the research director for the Program of Research on Market Transitions of the US Agency for International Development (Cameroon).
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Writings by Ronald J. Oakerson