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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons

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dc.contributor.author Silvestre, Joaquim en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:29:45Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:29:45Z
dc.date.issued 1993 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-11-19 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-11-19 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/402
dc.description.abstract "The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A first set of issues is the welfare comparison of an initial, inefficient status quo, called the open access solution, and various final, efficient allocations reached by regulation or privatization. We generalize Weitzman's result that fishers become worse off by privatization and we extend the analysis to the welfare of consumers. "Next we ask: What implications does the public ownership of the resource have for the distribution of its benefits? We analyze alternative approaches and propose a distribution rule based on the notion that both fishers and consumers should obtain the same rate of return from their (direct or indirect) contributors towards the fruits of the commons." en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject fisheries--theory en_US
dc.subject tragedy of the commons en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.title Distributing the Benefits from the Commons en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.subject.sector Theory en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Inequality and the Commons, the Third Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates September 17-20, 1992 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Washington, DC en_US


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