Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Tragedy of the Commons Revisited

I talked about the Tragedy of the Commons way back here, here and here. The continuing tension between short term individual interest and long term collective interest is at the heart of American problems. It's at the heart of world wide problems.

Turns out there are some recently discovered variations on the problem. (See here.)

There may be hope for us yet.

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