Managing the Commons
Author: John A. Baden, Douglas S. Noonan, William D. Ruckelshaus
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ISBN: 0253211530
Publisher: Indiana University Press (April, 1998)
Sales Rank: 167,902
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
It's not human to be altruistic
This collection of essays explores how individuals view commonly-owned resources. The clear conclusion is that people are biologically selfish: each person sees his/her own interests as more important than the group's interests. Altruism doesn't work as a policy. This flies in the face of common wisdom. I wish this book could be made standard reading for all high-school students. It explains the population's apparently self-defeating habit of destroying their own habitat.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Very informing information...Innovative, intuitive, interesting. -B. Baggins Similar Products
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