ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Thomas Hobbes, Cost, Reproductive Rights
14 Mar 2018
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Commons: a set of resources that a community views as accessible and beneficial to all members: commoners: people who use common grounds near village for grazing and growing, common resources included grass, water, soil, wheat, etc. Common pool resources (cprs): resources produced by a core resource system, from which a limited quantity of fringe resources can be extracted without undermining reproduction of the system: low excludability, subtractability - cprs must be subtractable. Incremental benefits to the individual: private benefits = +1. Collective costs to the community: public cost = -1, private cost = -1/100. Overpopulation: malthus: population grows geometrically while food supplies grow linear, meaning population will exceed food availability, poor laws: a system of empowering poor/relief. Malthusianism: geometric growth of population/arithmetic growth of resources. Common property regimes = ungoverned open access systems: no communication, rules, or adaptation limit use. Property rights: hierarchy of social organization: private/state property > common property.
