Justin. not Jason. And I am certainly gratified that I "mostly" understood Michael's
point. --jks
In a message dated Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:18:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Michael
Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should have been more clear. The Tragedy of the Commons suggests that
the
TOTC, thus the debate about individual transferable quotas etc. etc.
oh yeahhello list.
Adam Stokes
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I should have been more clear. The Tragedy of the Commons suggests that
environmental destruction comes from the lack of property rights. There is a
group in Montana that suggests that all environmental problems can be solved by
giving property rights to private owners. Supposedly, if I owned
My point, which Jason mostly understood, many pre-market societies [before
markets became dominant, not without markets altogether] developed methods of
avoiding the problem of over-exploitation.
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Michael Perelman
Keep in mind that there is an intensive campaign right now to discredit
this
Subject: [PEN-L:4] Re: Chinese desertification; disappearing bluecrabs
I should have been more clear. The Tragedy of the Commons suggests that
environmental destruction comes from the lack of property rights.
There is a
group in Montana that suggests that all environmental problems
At 07:48 AM 7/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
In Hardin's scenario, there already is private property rights: "As a
rational being, each herdsman seeks to maximize his gain. Explicitly or
implicitly, he asks, "What is the utility to me off adding one more animal
to my herd?"
So what you have under
Interesting, Mark. My interpretation is that markets did not emerge naturally,
although that is the ideology of capitalism. I do not mean to apply that you believed
so.
On the other hand, to denounce the ideology of the Tragedy of the Commons is not to
suggest that reverting to pre-capitalist
I read her article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives and found it
useful. By the way, The Tragedy of the Commons is crap. In fact, the villages
on the commons had developed institutions to tell people how much they could
graze.
Here are some more gems of capitalist wisdom
Heyne, Paul.
Michael wrote:
The Tragedy of the Commons is crap. In
fact, the villages
on the commons had developed institutions to tell people how much
they could
graze.
Isn't this a bit of an oversimplification? Arguably 'the commons' are an
invention/byproduct of the neolithic agricultural
Mark, I think of the commons -- at least the commons that Hardin wrote
about -- of the land to which the rural poor had access. I don't deny
that they probably, like all humans, degraded their environment, but
Hardin was writing in the context of the rationality of enclosing the
commons so that
In a message dated 7/30/00 4:49:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I read her article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives and found it
useful. By the way, The Tragedy of the Commons is crap. In fact, the
villages
on the commons had developed institutions to tell
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