The "tragedy of the commons" is
a. the lack of a commons-a common place where people can come together.
b. the failure to appreciate what we have in common with other species.
c. that cost-benefit analysis involves value judgments that we do not share in common.
d. that individual pursuit of self-interest can sometimes make everyone worse off.
d
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The writers in the eighteenth century were the ones who named their own time the "Age of Enlightenment."
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.The "double-consciousness" referred to by Du Bois is:
A. intended only as a metaphor. B. simultaneously seeing oneself both as an individual and as a member of one's race. C. experienced only by the educated elite. D. an idea founded upon Stoic philosophy. E. an idea founded upon the views of the British Empiricists.
According to Marx and Engels, a just society is one in which
A) there is a fair and equal distribution of wealth. B) the workers get part of the surplus value and the owners the rest. C) socialism replaces communism. D) laissez-faire capitalism fuels industry and regulates business.