Tragedy of the Commons - 25 Feb 2006
Wikipedia article (a nice summary with additional links at the end)
The seminal article by Garret Hardin "Tragedy of the Commons"
Same article as published in Science magazine - with additional material
See how it works: two interactive games that demonstrate the "tragedy"
The Bunny Game and
The Nuts Game - played on a coffee table with your "friends"
Descriptive summary article in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (a freedom advocacy think tank)
Daniel McFadden in Forbes, linking the ideas to the digital/internet world
Bruce Yandle for The Independent Institute (also includes a Spanish translation)
Robert Lucky in IEEE Spectrum - particularly on World Wide Web applications
R. De Young's essay on durable common pool resource managment
That seems like a lot of freedom-oriented tosh, so I'll complement it with
Something from Sojourners - proud to be a bunch of left-wing evangelicals.
And something from Whole Earth (formerly Review)
Peace be with you,
Chuck