1.10.1977

Terry Anderson

Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill, "From Free Grass to Fences: Transforming the Commons of the American West", ed. Garrett Hardin and John Baden, Managing the Commons, San Fransisco, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1977.

Between 1860 and 1900, changing land values and costs caused individuals and groups to devote more resources to definition and enforcement activity in order to capture potential rents to land. As a result of these activities, the institutions governing land ownership on the Great Plains moved successively toward exclusivity. [208]

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