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The Tragedy of the Commons as an Essentially Aggregative Harm (2014)
Journal Article
Kahn, E. (2014). The Tragedy of the Commons as an Essentially Aggregative Harm. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 31(3), 223-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12057

This article identifies ‘the tragedy of the commons’ as an essentially aggregative harm and considers what agents in such a scenario owe to one another. It proposes that the duty to take reasonable precautions requires that agents make efforts to est... Read More about The Tragedy of the Commons as an Essentially Aggregative Harm.