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Tragedy of the anticommons, a Common card
The tragedy of the anticommons is a type of coordination breakdown, in which a commons does not emerge, even when general access to resources or infrastructure would be a social good.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 90
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 90 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is a mirror-image of the older concept of tragedy of the commons, in which numerous rights holders' combined use exceeds the capacity of a resource and depletes or destroys it.
- The "tragedy of the anticommons" covers a range of coordination failures, including patent thickets and submarine patents.
- Overcoming these breakdowns can be difficult, but there are assorted means, including eminent domain, laches, patent pools, or other licensing organizations.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tragedy of the anticommons article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Tragedy of the anticommons
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tragedy of the anticommons (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Roche DG, Lanfear R, Binning SA, Haff TM, Schwanz LE, et al. (2014), CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
