English Explanatory Dictionary

anticommons

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The reverse of a commons; a situation in which a resource is subject to fragmented rights, whereby potential users can exclude one another.

Word forms

anticommons

Etymology

Coined by Michael Heller, based on "tragedy of the commons", a term coined by Garrett Hardin.

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