A Tragedy of the Commons in a Motel Parking Lot
My ain’t-no-private-property-around-here blues
I used to advise high school and junior college teachers on what to teach their economics students, with an emphasis on free-enterprise. Sometimes I forgot to include private property rights on my list. Never again.
I’ve been stranded for two days, with another day to go, by the mid-Atlantic snowstorm. I’m in a motel north of the Baltimore beltway. Unfortunately, the airport is south of the beltway, not that either the airport or the beltway are doing anybody any good right now. My rental car was totally buried the first night.

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