Tragedy of the anticommons

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What Wikipedia says

The tragedy of the anticommons is a type of coordination breakdown, in which a commons does not emerge, even when general access to resources or infrastructure would be a social good.

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Image: Roche DG, Lanfear R, Binning SA, Haff TM, Schwanz LE, et al. (2014), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.