Milton, sometimes I liked you ideas and your attempts to stress frozen situation. But sometimes you reminded me some pages from Russian history - like Russian February Revolution or Trotsky approach (please, remeber that in Western interpretation it means different that ours - Russian). Sorry - just a memories. Dima On Apr 12, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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i believe mueller's definition of a commons to be formally correct. but is arguing about the term of any constructive use?
Maybe.
If half the population discussing a proposal is hung up on a false, uninformed notion of what a commons is and opposes a proposal for that reason, we seem to have no choice but to clarify what the concept means. But I agree that the discussion can get sidetracked in endless ideological cruft. And probably will.