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084: Seeing like a Pastoralist with Mark Moritz

In Common

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The Difference Between the Common Resource and a Public Good

The distinction between the common resource and a public good is really about exhaustability oror subtractability. And it does seem like a part of the story that you're talking about here also has to do with how much environmental pressure is being placed on the resource systemnnd, that's a good point too. There's some something fundamentally different between sedentary folk and nomadic folk. So for botlists, there are no boundaries, and there is no scarcity, because there's always some place elsewhere where there's resources.

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