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Commons, Anticommons, and Semicommons

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The notions of commons, anticommons, and semicommons are presented here to highlight their connections concerning how forms of ownership beyond the classical boundaries of private property affect the management of resources. While the three concepts have been presented as expressing specific dilemmas for the management of the resources or distinct property regimes, they may be seen as components of a unified interpretative framework which recognizes resources as collection of multiple attributes and addresses the complexity of mixed property regimes by studying the interaction of common and private uses.

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  1. Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

    Enrico Bertacchini

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Bertacchini, E. (2019). Commons, Anticommons, and Semicommons. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_532

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