Search Results - "The Tragedy of the Commons"

The economics of the Yasuní initiative climate change as if thermodynamics mattered / by Vogel, Joseph Henry

Table of Contents: “…Thermodynamics : the language chosen defines the debate -- The tragedy of the commons : a class of problems that has no technical solution -- The willful ignorance of realpolitik : market failure or cost-shifting success? …”
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The promise of liberty a non-utopian vision / by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? …”
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Entrepreneurial economics bright ideas from the dismal science /

Table of Contents: “…The Organ Shortage: A Tragedy of the Commons? 107 -- Alexander Tabarrok -- Part IV. …”
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Improving Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry by Melissen, F. W. (Frans)

Table of Contents: “…People and sustainability; Introduction; Human behaviour and unsustainability; The complexities of human behaviour; Our tragedy of the commons and our social dilemmas; Bring in the Flintstones; Promoting sustainable behaviour; Focus on what we do know…”
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