In my latest post I referred to a paper by myself as
being in the May 1975 issue of _Land Economics_. That was
the May 1995 issue. Among other things I noted the large
literature showing that many traditional societies handled
problems of managing common property resources very well in
contrast to the standard right-wing arguments about the
"tragedy of the commons". This point has actually been
known since the 1975 article in _Natural Resources Journal_
by Richard Bishop and S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup. There is now a
burgeoning literature on this by people like Daniel
Bromley and others, many of them noting that colonialism
and European capitalism broke down these arrangements. In
many cases nationalization by post-colonial regimes did not
improve matters and only led to continued overexploitation
with control in the hands of corrupt urban elites.
Barkley Rosser
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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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