Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

anticommons

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-com-mons
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"However, the recent proliferation of intellectual property rights in biomedical research suggests a different tragedy, an "anticommons" in which people underuse scarce resources because too many owners can block each other."
"A substantial amount of current empirical evidence supports the conclusion that an anticommons has not developed."

Etymology

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

Questions

What does anticommons mean?: The reverse of a commons; a situation in which a resource is subject to fragmented rights, whereby potential users can exclude one another.
Where does anticommons come from?: Coined by Michael Heller, based on "tragedy of the commons", a term coined by Garrett Hardin.

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