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The benefits of the commons

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A number of examples show that this is not necessarily so as discussed by the authors, and that resources held in common will not always be over-expoited, the "tragedy of the commons".
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Conventional wisdom holds that resources held in common will invariably be overexploited — the "tragedy of the commons". A number of examples show that this is not necessarily so.

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Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms

TL;DR: The Logic of Collective Action (LCA) as mentioned in this paper was a seminal work in modern democratic thought that challenged the assumption that groups would tend to form and take collective action in democratic societies.
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Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges

TL;DR: New insights about the management of large-scale resources that depend on international cooperation and the conditions most likely to favor sustainable uses of common-pool resources are discussed.
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A Theory of Access.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define access as the ability to derive benefits from things, broadening from property's clas- sical definition as "the right to benefit from things" and examine a broad set of factors that differentiate access from property.
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The Drama of the Commons

TL;DR: The drama of the commons has been studied extensively in the literature as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the role of individuals in the drama of commons management and their roles in the commons.
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The tragedy of the commons: twenty-two years later.

TL;DR: Evidence accumulated over the last twenty-two years indicates that private, state, andcommunal property are all potentially viable resource management options.
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The Tragedy of the Commons

TL;DR: The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the economic theory of natural resource utilization as it pertains to the fishing industry and showed that most of the problems associated with the words "conservation" or "depletion" or ''overexploitation" in the fishery are, in reality, manifestations of the fact that the natural resources of the sea yield no economic rent.
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