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Garrett Hardin
Garrett Hardin is an ecologist, best known for his controversial beliefs about population control. Hardin became famous through his writing, specifically through a 1968 essay,
"The Tragedy of the Commons,"
Science, 162, now reprinted in over 100 anthologies and widely accepted as a fundamental contribution to ecology, population theory,
economics
and political science. Hardin's work, especially that on population, immigration, and abortion, has had many practical effects on public politics and debate, as well as on biological science itself. Since his retirement from the Santa Barbara campus in 1978, he has devoted himself to writing and speaking.
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The Manila Times
March 31, 2018
Fifty years ago, the ecologist Garrett Hardin wrote “The Tragedy of the Commons” to describe how individual self-interested actions lead to a community's collective peril. Every day, rational individual choices undermine the common good. Overfishing of a bay. Deforestation. Waste disposal. Climate change.
The Financial Brand
March 21, 2018
The Tragedy of the Commons, outlined by biologist Garrett Hardin in 1968, describes how shared resources can be overused and eventually depleted. He compared shared resources to a common grazing pasture; in this scenario, everyone with rights to the pasture acting in self-interest for the greatestÃâà...
Forests News, Center for International Forestry Research (blog)
March 19, 2018
As argued in Garrett Hardin's famous 1968 treatise on the “tragedy of the commons”, without clear property rights, people will race to capture resources, leading to exploitation. Productivity will also be reduced, as people won't have an incentive to invest if they cannot generate individual returns. This workÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 15, 2018
It is a very 2018 version of Garrett Hardin's “tragedy of the commons,” where we, ourselves, are the cattle, the mapping software is the herdsman, and the roads are the common pasture. Nonetheless, the outcome is the same. In transportation-engineering terms, it could be that routing apps increase theÃâà...
The Ecologist
March 9, 2018
He referred to her as 'Elinor', as if talking about a dear friend, and the audience laughed along as he told us about her meeting with the political economist Garrett Hardin, and Wall's own encounter with her shortly before she passed away. Later, over drinks at the pub across the street, we huddled togetherÃâà...
Statesman Journal
March 6, 2018
Trump's policies continue to steer us down the slippery slope of downgraded global Commons, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) acquires a new and double meaning in Trump's world: Words of Mass Deception. On all three counts of Garrett Hardin's “Filters against Folly,” Trump's policies do notÃâà...
Foreign Policy Research Institute
December 31, 1999
The genius of Garrett Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons was that Hardin analogized from the central strategic dilemma of the Cold War to the strategic stance necessary to address environmental degradation. FPRI called for using such insights to address the security threats posed by modern terrorism, and,Ãâà...
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