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  2. Common good (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Wild fish are an example of common goods. They are non-excludable, as it is impossible to prevent people from catching fish. They are, however, rivalrous, as the same fish cannot be caught more than once. Common goods (also called common-pool resources [1]) are defined in economics as goods that are rivalrous and non-excludable. Thus, they ...

  3. Common-pool resource - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a common-pool resource (CPR) is a type of good consisting of a natural or human-made resource system (e.g. an irrigation system or fishing grounds), whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use.

  4. Property rights (economics) - Wikipedia

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    This is also known as a common property resource, impure public good or sometimes erroneously as a common pool resource. [13] A common pool resource however is often managed the group of people that have access to that resource [14]. Examples of this can be air, water, sights, and sounds. Tragedy of the commons refers to this title. An example ...

  5. Global commons - Wikipedia

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    A common-pool resource, also called a common property resource, is a special case of a common good (or public good) whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential users. Examples include both natural or human-made resource domains (e.g., a "fishing hole" or an irrigation system).

  6. Public good - Wikipedia

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    Common-pool resource: A good that is rivalrous but non-excludable. Such goods raise similar issues to public goods: the mirror to the public goods problem for this case is the ' tragedy of the commons ', where the unfettered access to a good sometimes results in the overconsumption and thus depletion of that resource.

  7. Factors of production - Wikipedia

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    In economics, factors of production, resources, or inputs are what is used in the production process to produce output—that is, goods and services. The utilised amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to the relationship called the production function .

  8. Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia

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    In 1833, the English economist William Forster Lloyd published "Two Lectures on the Checks to Population", [6] a pamphlet that included a hypothetical example of over-use of a common resource. [7] This was the situation of cattle herders sharing a common parcel of land on which they were each entitled to let their cows graze.

  9. Commons - Wikipedia

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    Sheep grazing on common pasture, a stereotypical environmental commons, at Castlemorton. The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly.