Proponents of the Tragedy of the Commons suggest attempting to “enclose,” privatize, ormake exclusive the rights to access and use what had been freely or openly availableresources. Sometimes this is difficult owing to the physical character of the resource, likea large shared open pasture or a cache of electronic information available to anyone on theweb. Technology can sometimes be used to help limit access to commons and make it easierto distribute property rights, as barbed wire fences did by cheaply dividing up the vast cattlepastures of the US West in the nineteenth century. Describe three resources that have beenmade more divisible by use of new inventions and technologies. What resources continueto elude technological solutions to enforcing property rights?
Proponents of the Tragedy of the Commons suggest attempting to “enclose,” privatize, or
make exclusive the rights to access and use what had been freely or openly available
resources. Sometimes this is difficult owing to the physical character of the resource, like
a large shared open pasture or a cache of electronic information available to anyone on the
web. Technology can sometimes be used to help limit access to commons and make it easier
to distribute property rights, as barbed wire fences did by cheaply dividing up the vast cattle
pastures of the US West in the nineteenth century. Describe three resources that have been
made more divisible by use of new inventions and technologies. What resources continue
to elude technological solutions to enforcing property rights?
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