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Tragedy of the Commons
Tragedy of the Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin, Published in Science, December 13, 1968
Submitted by shiri on Fri, 2006-10-27 20:49.
Tragedy of the Commons | Africa
What was the power of Hardin?
Submitted by kev on Thu, 2006-10-26 08:13.BOOK REVIEW
Pauline E. Peters. Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana. Charlottesville; London: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Pauline Peters' book provides a fascinating, Foucauldian historicization of communal land in Africa, brilliantly marking out the ways that the British enclosures and ‘improvement’ discourses shaped land tenure policies in the colonies.
Peters also has a particularly insightful take on Garrett Hardin, placing him in the broader context of the rise of rational choice theory and neo-classical economic models.
