In Georgia today and in Europe in the past, villages owned pastures where every shepherd and cattle-herder in the community could take his animals. Grazing on these pastures was free and unrestricted. This land, owned by all villagers jointly, is traditionally referred to as the “commons” (in the last years, the term has been extended to also refer to free-to-use internet content).
The access to common land is unregulated, and consequently the villagers utilize on this resource as much as they can. Due to the heavy overuse, the common land in villages ha...
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Brilliant! Very interesting article interlinking ancient Georgian mythology with the fundamental principles of economics. As famou... Read More
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" these property rights were indeed assigned, but not to villagers, but to their gods."In Khevsureti, village Roshka there is a pa... Read More
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