The tragedy of the commons revisited: The importance of group decision-making

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 93, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 785-797

  Gillet, Joris ^a   Schram, Arthur ^b   Sonnemans, Joep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Common pool; Experiment; Group decision making; Majority rule; Unanimity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349109451     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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