Essay1968
The Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett Hardin
Individually rational use of a shared resource destroys it — an argument later substantially qualified by Ostrom's fieldwork.
6 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Economics · Environmental & Resource Economics
Common Pool Resources
A topic within Environmental & Resource Economics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Economics.
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Lecture2009
Nobel Lecture: Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
Elinor Ostrom
Argues from decades of fieldwork that communities routinely manage shared resources sustainably through their own rules, without either privatisation or state control, overturning the assumption that only those two options work.
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