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...but Hardin & co. made a big mistake: commoners are *not* prisoners! They can move, communicate and organize. Thousands of successful #commons have been recorded.
The false idea that "commons can't work", backed up by inaccurate #gameTheory fed into the creeping #neoliberalism of the late 60's and was snapped up by policy makers world-wide, accelerating the eviction of indigenous people and more.
In response, Elinor #Ostrom and others began to more closely inspect the commons...
