Part one: Classic tragedy of the commons The tragedy of the commons - Garrett Hardin The economic theory of a common property resource: the fishery - H. Scott Gordon Group size and group behavior - Mancur Olson, Jr A new primer for the management of common pool resources and public goods - John A. Baden Part two: developing theories of the commons Environmental resource management: public or private? - Robert L. Bish The tragedy of the commons: twenty-two years later - David Feeny, Fikret Berkes, Boonie J. McCay, and James M. Acheson Reflections on the commons - Elinor Ostrom Part three Organizing the commons From free grass to fences: transforming the commons of the american west - Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill Communitarianism and the logic of the commons - John A. Baden A community corporation approach to management of marine fisheries: with some potential applications to Hawaii - Samuel G. Pooley and Ralph E. Townsend International fisheries management institutions: Europe and the South Pacific - Douglas S. Noonan Part four: Problematic conceptions of the commons: alternative perspectives The tragedy of the scenic commons - Randal O'Toole Internet decentralization, feedback, and self-organization - Douglas S. Noonan Environmental versus political pollution - Dwight R. Lee The federal treasury as a common pool resource: the predatory bureaucracy as amanagement tool - John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan Living on a lifeboat - Garrett Hardin Clear thinking about the earth - Luynn Scarlett