-----Original Message-----
From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Perceptions of sustainability
>---Steven Bissell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>It sounds as if you've given emperical evidence to support Garret
>Hardin's
>"Tragedy of the Commons" theory. That in itself is significant because
>many
>economists have said there is no "tragedy" at all.
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Steve [log in to unmask] replies;
>The primary reason for this is that the "tragedy of the commons" as
>posited by Garret Hardin can be solved by the introduction of property
>rights. The problem is that of an externality and the introduction
>internalizes the externality and there is no problem.
>
and Bissell rejoins,
Which I believe was my point. Are you an economist Steve? By the way a 2nd
edition of _Managing the Commons_ edited by John Baden and Douglas Noonan,
which is a book length comment on Hardin's original article is out. Haven't
read it all, but it's interesting.
Steven J. Bissell
http://www.du.edu/~sbissell
http://www.responsivemanagement.com
Our human ecology is that of a rare species of mammal
in a social, omnivorous niche. Our demography is one of
a slow-breeding, large, intelligent primate.
To shatter our population structure, to become abundant
in the way of rodents, not only destroys our ecological
relations with the rest of nature, it sets the stage
for our mass insanity.
Paul Shepard
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