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  2. Excludability - Wikipedia

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    A good, service or resource that is unable to prevent or exclude non-paying consumers from experiencing or using it can be considered non-excludable. An architecturally pleasing building, such as Tower Bridge, creates an aesthetic non-excludable good, which can be enjoyed by anyone who happens to look at it. It is difficult to prevent people ...

  3. Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia

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    This raises the question whether one can view access itself as a finite resource in the context of a digital environment. Some scholars argue this point, often pointing to a proxy for access that is more concrete and measurable. [56] One such proxy is bandwidth, which can become congested when too many people try to access the digital environment.

  4. Public good - Wikipedia

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    Club goods: are the goods that are excludable but are non-rivalrous such as private parks. Mixed good: final goods that are intrinsically private but that are produced by the individual consumer by means of private and public good inputs. The benefits enjoyed from such a good for any one individual may depend on the consumption of others, as in ...

  5. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [ 4 ] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.

  6. Common good (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Road is public good whenever there is no congestion, thus the use of the road does not affect the use of someone else. However, if the road is congested, one more person driving the car makes the road more crowded which causes slower passage. In other words, it creates a negative externality and road becomes common good. [1]

  7. Free-rider problem - Wikipedia

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    In social science, the free-rider problem is the question of how to limit free riding and its negative effects in these situations, such as the free-rider problem of when property rights are not clearly defined and imposed. [4] The free-rider problem is common with public goods which are non-excludable [b] and non-rivalrous.

  8. Collective action problem - Wikipedia

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    A common good is rivalrous and non-excludable, meaning that anyone can use the resource but there is a finite amount of the resource available and it is therefore prone to overexploitation. [ 24 ] The paradigm of the tragedy of the commons first appeared in an 1833 pamphlet by English economist William Forster Lloyd .

  9. Club good - Wikipedia

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    There may, of course, be both an increasing and a constant range of the total benefit function, but at some point, congestion will set in, and his evaluation of the good will fall. But each new member (or co-owner) helps reduce the cost of the club good, so there will be some optimal size of the good that maximizes the benefit for its members.