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The economic theory of a common-property resource: The fishery

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Reprinted from theJournal of Political Economy, Vol. 62, pp. 124–142 (1954) with the permission of the University of Chicago Press

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Gordon, H.S. The economic theory of a common-property resource: The fishery. Bltn Mathcal Biology 53, 231–252 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464431

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