Garrett Hardin's seminal essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," appeared in 1968 and has been at the center of the debate of commonly owned ground or resources, such as western public grazing or the oceans. This is the second edition of a book exploring the issues in Hardin's essay. As scarce resources are increasingly strained, it is evermore crucial to identify those resources which are held in common and are therefore prone to "tragic" wastes and abuses. The volume focuses on alternate institutional approaches to managing these resources to prevent tragedy.
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John A. Baden is Chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) and the Gallatin Institute. He was co-contributing editor of the first edition of Managing the Commons with Garrett Hardin. He is also contributimh editor of Environmental Gore and writes a syndicated column for the Seattle Times.
DOUGLAS S. NOONAN is Research Assistant at the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) and the Gallatin Institute. He is a graduate of the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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It's not human to be altruistic,
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This collection of essays explores how individuals view commonly-owned resources. The clear conclusion is that people are biologically selfish: each person sees his/her own interests as more important than the group's interests. Altruism doesn't work as a policy. This flies in the face of common wisdom. I wish this book could be made standard reading for all high-school students. It explains the population's apparently self-defeating habit of destroying their own habitat.
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