Beni comuni e l’inganno della scarsità | Andrea Pannone
As it is well known the notion of tragedy of the commons prefigures a conflict on the appropriation levels of resources that are non-excludable and rival (natural resources, such as forests, fisheries, and other renewable, or human-made resources, as irrigation systems, information goods, etc.). Tragedy occurs if those resources will be overused or even exhausted by rational, utility-maximizing individuals rather than conserved for the benefit of all. In this paper we show that in the presence of immediate and shared information on the potential capacity of a common along a given time period, as well as adequate feedback on individual behavior, significant antirivality and inclusiveness phenomena could take place. In these cases tragedy could be avoided.
