# The commons

Some things belong to everyone: a pasture, a fishery, a language, an internet. Hardin warned in 1968 that shared things get overused. Ostrom showed in her work that many communities have governed a commons well for centuries, and shared the 2009 economics prize for it.

Connects to:
- [Society](https://mapideas.org/i/society)
- [Climate](https://mapideas.org/i/ea_climate)
- [The internet](https://mapideas.org/i/te_net)
- [How should we act on climate?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_climate_act)
- [Who should hold the commons?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_commons)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons)
- [Wikipedia: Elinor Ostrom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/so_commons · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#so_commons