Managing the Commons

by Garrett Hardin

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716704765
• ISBN13: 9780716704768
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It's not human to be altruistic

This collection of essays explores how individuals view commonly-owned resources. The clear conclusion is that people are biologically selfish: each person sees his/her own interests as more important than the group's interests. Altruism doesn't work as a policy. This flies in the face of common wisdom. I wish this book could be made standard reading for all high-school students. It explains the population's apparently self-defeating habit of destroying their own habitat.

Good Stuff

Very informing information...Innovative, intuitive, interesting. -B. Baggins