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anticommons

The English word “anticommons” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. The reverse of a commons; a situation in which a resource is subject to fragmented rights, whereby potential users can exclude one another.

Etymology

Coined by Michael Heller, based on "tragedy of the commons", a term coined by Garrett Hardin.

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