The Tragedy of the Uncommons

Autor: Brianna Cardiff-Hicks, Matthew Brown
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Review of Law & Economics. 14
ISSN: 1555-5879
Popis: We develop and discuss a new institutional concept, “the tragedy of the uncommons,” to describe the inefficient use of resources that are both non-substitutable and transitory. This situation is not captured by the tragedy of the commons/anti-commons literature or other theories. We highlight the crucial and under-appreciated assumptions about value over time of the tragedy of the commons and anticommons. We also introduce the concepts of “under” and “over-ownership” to the bundle of rights theory of property clarifying weaknesses in the literature to help better understand how institutions can yield efficient resource preservation.
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