Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Another Commons Problem?


"Power is contingent," he said. "The power of these client groups turned out to be stronger than I realized. The client groups know how to make themselves heard. The problem is, unorganized groups can't play in this game."- David Stockman, (Ronald Reagan's Director of the Office of Budget and Management in 1981 in a December 1981 piece in The Atlantic by William Greider entitled "The Education of David Stockman")

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  1. Certainly another classic collective action problem... whether it's the "commons" really depends. One might think of the federal budget (or different interest groups' access to tax revenues) as a "common pool resource", then interest groups have incentives to play the allocation game.

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