Re: [ox-en] Commons in a taxonomy of goods

On 2010-06-15 21:17, Diego Saravia wrote:
> > _Free goods_ (also: Res nullius, Terra nullius or no man’s land)
> > are legally or socially unregulated goods under free access. The
> > often cited „Tragedy of Commons“ is a tragedy of no man’s land,
> > which is overly used or destroyed due to missing rules of usage.
> > Such no man’s lands do exist yet today, e.g. in high-sea or
> > deep-sea.
> 
> but not only a legal classification,
> 
> you have scarce or economic goods, and free goods

Scarcity is not a goods property, but a social form of goods to be 
produced (namely: commodity).

> economic goods could be rival/non rival and exclusive/non exclusive

All goods can be rival/non rival and be made exclusive/non exclusive.

> that gives you 4 categories: public, private, common,  and club goods

Although usual, that's a false classification, because it presumes, that 
both rivalry and excludability is a property of the good, but being 
exclusive/non exclusive is not (it's a result of an activity, thus 
social).

> so you have 5 basic categories: free:  public, private, common,  and
> club goods

That's the outdated traditional classification which has to be overcome.

> commom goods usually are defined in terms of non excludable/rival

Not true for digital commons.

Commons is a social form of producing goods, not a property of the good 
itself.

However, I admit that traditional economic theory is not able to picture 
this interrelation.

Ciao,
Stefan

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