Bounded rationality – Theory of non-optimal decision-making

Collective action problem – Type of social dilemma

Conflict of interest – Ethically disputed practice

Dutch disease – Theory in economics, the apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector (for example natural resources) and a decline in other sectors (like the manufacturing sector or agriculture).

Externality – In economics, an imposed cost or benefit

Credentialism and educational inflation – Demands for educational qualifications

The Evolution of Cooperation – 1984 book by Robert Axelrod

Free-rider problem – Market failure benefitting non-paying users

International Association for the Study of the Commons – Non-profit organization

Nash equilibrium – Solution concept of a non-cooperative game

Overfishing – Removal of a species of fish from water at a rate that the species cannot replenish

Shark finning – Harvesting of fins from live sharks

Pacific bluefin tuna – Species of fish

Panic buying – Unusual pattern of purchase, when consumers buy unusually large amounts of a product in anticipation of, or after, a disaster or perceived disaster, or in anticipation of an incredibly large price increase or shortage.

Parasitism (social offense) – Crime of living at the expense of others

Prisoner's dilemma – Standard example in game theory, wherein two parties may each act in an individually beneficial fashion to the detriment of both

Race to the bottom – Deregulation to attract economic activity

Resource curse – Theory that resource wealth slows growth

Social reputation in fiction (category)

Social trap – Type of 'tragedy of the commons'

Somebody else's problem – Dismissive figure of speech

Stone Soup – European folk story, the inverse of the tragedy

Tragedy of the anticommons – Type of resource coordination breakdown

tyranny of small decisions – Economic phenomenon, a situation in which a number of decisions, individually small and insignificant in size and time perspective, cumulatively result in a larger and significant outcome which is neither optimal nor desired.

Unscrupulous diner's dilemma – Game theory: n-player "prisoner's dilemma"

Unintended consequences – Unforeseen outcomes of an action

Volunteer's dilemma – Game theory case weighing own/others' sacrifice, in which each player can either make a small sacrifice that benefits everybody, or instead wait in hope of benefiting from someone else's sacrifice

Related concepts

enclosure – In England, appropriation of common land, depriving commoners of their ancient rights

image tragedy of the commons

define tragedy of the commons

wikipedia tragedy of the commons

weblio tragedy of the commons

kotobank tragedy of the commons

jisho tragedy of the commons