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Garrett Hardin's 1968 paper "Tragedy of the Commons" argues that individuals acting in their own self-interest will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource. He uses a pasture analogy to show that while an individual benefits from adding more cattle to the pasture, it is detrimental to the common good. Hardin asserts that this problem has no technical solution and requires a fundamental change in morality. The paper discusses other examples like the prisoner's dilemma, Easter Island's deforestation, and approaches to managing shared resources through community norms, government regulations, and market mechanisms. Critics argue alternative perspectives and solutions around the concept of the tragedy of the commons.
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Garrett Hardin, an American ecologist and microbiologist, published "The Tragedy of the Commons" in 1968. The concept describes a shared resource where individual users receive the full benefits of their personal use while losses are distributed amongst all. This results in tragedy for all as increased individual usage depletes the common resource. Hardin argued that appeals to individual conscience are ineffective and proposed mutual coercion through government regulation of resources like limiting population growth or restricting pollution.
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- 2. Brief description of Hardin’s paper • Pasture analogy • Overuse of finite resources • The problem is not one of resources, but one of population Garrett Hardin • Benefit reaped by individual, loss shared by entire population The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. Garrett Hardin (1915-2003) Author – Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
- 3. Prisoner’s Dilemma •Ideal situation -3 1 2 •Real life tends to - 1 (About 5% respondents opt for 3 on the first try) 4 3
- 4. Easter Island - A classic tragedy • First human inhabitations about 400 AD • Europeans arrive in mid 1700’s to find about 2000 inhabitants • Huge Statues • Evidence unearthed shows a once rich ecosystem, supportive of a much larger Avg height- 14.5ft Avg weight – 15 tons population of about 30,000 • Overpopulation created social problems, Most isolated human habitation in history leading to massive deforestation, loss of vegetation • Eventual Collapse
- 5. Solution approach to problems of ‘Commons’ Self -Regulation through community norms : • Lake water in a village • Small scale Government Regulations : • Tradable instrument • High Cost & resources • Issued by approved agencies • Difficult when independent • Global Market place governments are regulating Market Mechanism (Kyoto Protocol- Carbon offset credit)
- 6. Criticisms of the theory • The Myth of tragedy of Commons. • Where’s the evidence • Solution to “Tragedy of Commons” : Privatization of the commons • The tragedy of Anti commons/ Grid Lock Economy. “The commons leads to overuse and destruction; the anti commons leads to underuse and waste” E.g. Pharmacy Industry Patents
- 7. Learning/Practical applications • Incentive to increase individual responsibility for common benefit • Implementation of property rights • HDB (Singapore) • Traffic controls • Failure in Brazil • Success in Singapore
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