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• Is it time to kill the Antarctic Treaty?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia Fifty years ago, 12 nations—Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union and the U.S.—agreed to cede their claims to Antarctica. The continent would belong to no nation and become a nature preserve and scientific ...
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• CLIMATEGATE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED CAUSE, SO BEWARE

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 127
  I want to go on record here sooner than later about this thing called Climategate. I am on record many times saying that it is not a question of whether or not 9/11 was an inside job but rather only a matter of how deep and wide. This thing called Climategate at best must be approached from the opposite direction. ...
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• The Tradegy of the Commons

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 110
  The tragedy of the commons refers to a dilemma described in an influential article by that name written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968. The article describes a situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own ...
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• The altruism instinct

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Theres a reason that all social groups should fall apart, which can be illustrated by the following scenario. You are a cattle farmer, sharing open pasture with 100 other farmers, and are trying to decide whether to add another animal to your herd. Like any rational person, you weigh the costs and benefits of this ...
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• All Hail the Unendangered Wild Turkey: A Thanksgiving Reflection

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 474
  Imagine sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner in a world without wild turkeys . It’s hard to conceive —if you live in the United States, chances are you’re just a short distance away from a large population of these birds. They roam forests, wood lots, farm fields and prairies from Maine to Florida , ...
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• Commoditization… and the Tragedy of the Commons….

  
  diversity.net.nz — Authority: 119
  My good friend Ruth has started blogging and, in what can only be likened to a “butterfly from the chrysalis” moment, we get to see the thoughts her previous employment have rendered her unlikely to utter. Her latest post looks broadly at the Emissions Trading Scheme and questions the strategy of levying a ...
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• Elinor Ostrom has transformed economics by showing communal ownership works in capitalism too

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 532
  Elinor Ostrom Derek Wall on Strom winning the Nobel prize in Economics for refuting the “tragedy of the commons.” Ostrom’s work is important to socialists because it shows that it is possible to run economic systems without private property or state control. Marx famously argued that socialism would lead ...
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• Tragedy of the Commons?

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 130
  French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality – NYTimes.com . Paris’ chiq Vélibs are taking a hammering. Matthew Kahn ( whose blog I got the story from ) calls it another example of the Tragedy of the Commons. “We found many stolen Vélib’s in Paris’s troubled neighborhoods,” said Marie Lajus, a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Beyond ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’: Why Conservation Needs a Rethink

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 474
  Of course this year’s Nobel Peace Prize got all the press — as that prize nearly always does. The Nobel Prize in economics , by contrast, went almost unnoticed. That’s a double shame . First, because it was given to Dr. Elinor Ostrom of the Indiana University and Arizona State University — the first ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Warped Economics of Carry-On Luggage

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 643
  I just got home from a quick trip to Denver, where I spoke at a Concord Coalition event on our nation’s dire fiscal outlook. That’s a big, complex problem, but today I’d like to share some thoughts on an even more vexing problem: the warped economics of carry-on luggage.As you probably know, most...
  6 weeks ago

• The Warped Economics of Carry-On Luggage

  
  Donald Marron — Authority: 468
  I just got home from a quick trip to Denver, where I spoke at a Concord Coalition event on our nation’s dire fiscal outlook. That’s a big, complex problem, but today I’d like to share some thoughts on an even more vexing problem: the warped economics of carry-on luggage. As you probably know, most major ...
  6 weeks ago

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