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Austria to observe three days of mourning after a 21-year-old attacker kills at least 10 people at a school in Graz.

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Defenders of capitalism argue that cooperation is undermined by individuals’ tendency to take more from society than they ...

Three friends who moved to Loch Hourn in the Highlands of Scotland during the 1970s have seen first hand the impact neoliberal economics has had on the environment. This is their story. The Ecologist ...

Men pay most attention to what is their own; they care less for what is common,” wrote Aristotle, describing the tragedy of the commons. Centuries later, Garrett Hardin would shape the term in ...

Wikipedia is written and maintained by volunteers who ... and similar decentralised collaborations at risk. That is a tragedy. These collaborations adopted their designs to sidestep the sort ...

As I wrote last year, if the government had kept ... Whether you like the man or not, it’s hard not to see an element of tragedy in the arc of his political ­­­­­­­­career.

It’s all like a medieval commons where everyone has the right to graze his animal. Or a fishing bank where boats can take as many fish as they like. Or a vast bison herd on a prairie nobody owns.

Wonder Land: Even after the assassination attempt, the leaders of our eroding institutions have no answer or just look the other way. Photo: EVAN VUCCI/ASSOCIATED PRESS In his televised address ...

They all use a “common.” The term “Tragedy of the Commons” explains a situation where individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each person’s self-interest ...