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  • 1Tragedy of the commons — Cows on Selsley Common. The tragedy of the commons is one way of accounting for overexploitation. The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting… …

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  • 2Commons — Com mons, n. pl., 1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign.… …

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  • 3The Honourable — The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon. or formerly The Hon ble ) is a style used before the names of certain classes of persons.UsageAustraliaIn Australia, all ministers in Commonwealth, states and the Northern… …

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  • 4The Right Honourable — (abbreviated as The Rt Hon. ) is an honorific prefix that is traditionally applied to certain people in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Anglophone Caribbean and other Commonwealth Realms, and occasionally… …

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  • 5The Future of Ideas — The Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world (2001) is a book by Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright term in US.It is a continuation of… …

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  • 6The Winslow Boy — is an English play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan based on an actual incident in the Edwardian era, which took place at the Royal Naval College, Osbourne. The play s London debut was in 1946, and it featured Emlyn Williams, Mona Washbourne, Angela …

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  • 7The Market for Lemons — The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism is a 1970 paper by the economist George Akerlof. It discusses information asymmetry, which occurs when the seller knows more about a product than the buyer. A lemon is an… …

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  • 8The Ballad of Japing Jesus — is a poem by Oliver St John Gogarty. The first two stanzas were printed in Ulysses.Full text The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus [e206] :I m the queerest young fellow that ever was heard.:My mother s a Jew; my father s a… …

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  • 9The New Statesman — For the current affairs magazine, see New Statesman. For other uses, see New Statesmen. infobox television show name = The New Statesman genre = Satirical sitcom creator = Laurence Marks Maurice Gran executive producer = David Reynolds John… …

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  • 10The Corporation — Infobox Film name = The Corporation image size = caption = Promotional poster for The Corporation director = Mark Achbar Jennifer Abbott producer = Mark Achbar Bart Simpson writer = Joel Bakan Harold Crooks Mark Achbar narrator = Mikela J. Mikael …

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