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  • "The Tragedy of the Commons" is an influential article written by Garrett Hardin and first
    published in the journal Science in 1968.^[1] The article
    describes a dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in their
    own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it
    is clear that it is not in anyone's long term interest for this to happen.^[2]
• 18 Apr 09
  

  M McBride

  Central to Hardin's article is a metaphor of herders sharing a common parcel of land (the commons), on which they are all entitled to let their cows graze. In Hardin's view, it is in each herder's interest to put as many cows as possible onto the land, even if the commons are damaged as a result. The herder receives all of the benefits from the additional cows, while the damage to the commons is shared by the entire group. If all herders make this individually rational decision, however, the commons are destroyed and all herders suffer

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  ken meece

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  • "The Tragedy of the Commons" is an influential article written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968.^[1] The article describes a dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in their own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even where it is clear that it is not in anyone's long term interest for this to happen.

    
    

    Central to Hardin's article is a metaphor of herders sharing a common parcel of land (the commons), on which they are all entitled to let their cows graze. In Hardin's view, it is in each herder's interest to put as many cows as possible onto the land, even if the commons is damaged as a result. The herder receives all of the benefits from the additional cows, while the damage to the commons is shared by the entire group. If all herders make this individually rational decision, however, the commons is destroyed and all herders suffer.

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  Di Ci
  • The tragedy of the commons is a type of social trap, often economic, that involves a conflict over finite resources between individual interests and the common good. It states that free access and unrestricted demand for a finite resource ultimately structurally dooms the resource through over-exploitation.
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  Navneet Kumar on 2006-08-01
  how unrestricted access to a resource such as a pasture ultimately dooms the resource because of over-exploitation. This occurs because the benefits of exploitation accrue to individuals, while the costs of exploitation are distributed between all those exploiting the resource.

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