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This is well-stated by Garrett Hardin in his classic 1968 essay "The Tragedy of the Commons": http://dieoff.org/page95.htm http://dieoff.org/page95.htm
by rfugger 14y ago
This is well-stated by Garrett Hardin in his classic 1968 essay "The Tragedy of the Commons":
http://dieoff.org/page95.htm http://dieoff.org/page95.htm
- billswift 14y agoHardin overstated his case, for much better and more nuanced treatments, go to Google Scholar and search for "Elinor Ostrom" "Tragedy of the commons". She won the 2009 Nobel in economics, largely for her work in how "the commons" really are managed.