I think this may not be a "fair" example (are any). There have been severe criticisms of Mugabe for a number of things including cronyism. A lot of the media r

I think this may not be a "fair" example (are any). There have been severe criticisms of Mugabe for a number of things including cronyism. A lot of the media reports I read in Britain suggested much of the land didn't in fact become common land, but actually was handed over to Mugabe supporters, particularly ex-paramilitaries. While I'm not going to dispute that commercial farming by a smaller number of individuals was more productive, it may not be entirely fair to attribute this to a tragedy of the commons.