Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:Depending on whether Van and Carlos both choose to hunt either nonintensively or intensively, fill in Paolo's profit-maximizing response in the
following table, given Van and Carlos's actions.
Van and Carlos's Actions
Hunt Nonintensively
Hunt Intensively
Paolo's Profit-Maximizing Response
Which of the following solutions could ensure that the recreational wildlife game area is sustainable in the long run, assuming that the regulation is
enforceable? Check all that apply.
O Convert the recreational wildlife game area to private property, and allow the owner to sell hunting rights.
Outlaw intensive hunting.
O Develop a program that entices more hunters to move to the area.
O O O

Transcribed Image Text:6. Common resources and the tragedy of the commons
Paolo, Van, and Carlos are hunters who live next to a recreational wildlife game area that is open to hunting; in other words, anyone is free to use the
recreational wildlife game area for hunting. Assume that these men are the only three hunters who hunt in this recreational wildlife game area and
that the recreational wildlife game area is large enough for all three hunters to hunt intensively at the same time.
Each year, the hunters choose independently how often to hunt; specifically, they choose whether to hunt intensively (that is, to set several traps and
hunt long hours, which hurts the sustainability of the recreational wildlife game area if enough people do it) or to hunt nonintensively (which does not
hurt the sustainability of the recreational wildlife game area). None of them has the ability to control how much the others hunt, and each hunter
cares only about his own profitability and not about the state of the recreational wildlife game area.
Assume that as long as no more than one hunter hunts intensively, there are enough animals to restock the recreational wildlife game area. However,
if two or more hunt intensively, the recreational wildlife game area will become useless in the future. Of course, hunting intensively earns a hunter
more money and greater profit because he can sell more animals.
The recreational wildlife game area is an example of a common resource
because the animals in the recreational wildlife game area are
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