The Tragedy of the Commune: Learning from worst-case scenarios

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 308-327

  Mause, Karsten ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective action; Common pool resources; Communes; Shared housing

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749012757     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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