The Tragedy of the Commons
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Full Title or Meme
A situation in which individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use of that resource.
Context
- Prior to an article The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin[1] the term The Commons found little use in scholarly articles.
- The Commons Dilemma as it is now known looks at the case where people interest in maximizing their own welfare, destroy the common good on which they all rely.
- In the context of Identity Management the commons is
References
- ↑ Garrett Hardin The Tragedy of the Commons Science 162 (5364) 1968