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production costs are zero. In reality, few goods are completely non-rival as rivalry can emerge at certain levels. For instance, use of public roads, the Internet, or police/law courts is non-rival up to a certain capacity, after which congestion means that each additional user decreases speed for
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and nondurable, are rival goods. A hammer is a durable rival good. One person's use of the hammer prevents others from using the hammer at the same time. However, the first user does not "use up" the hammer, meaning that some rival goods can still be shared through time. An apple is a nondurable
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is an example of a non-rival good; when a consumer turns on a TV set, this does not prevent the TV in another consumer's house from working. The television itself is a rival good, but television broadcasts are non-rival goods. Other examples of non-rival goods include a beautiful scenic
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if, for any level of production, the cost of providing it to a marginal (additional) individual is zero. A good is "anti-rivalrous" and "inclusive" if each person benefits more when other people consume it.
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A good can be placed along a continuum from rivalrous through non-rivalrous to anti-rivalrous. The distinction between rivalrous and non-rivalrous is sometimes referred to as
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Hess, C., E. Ostrom. 2006. Introduction. C. Hess, E. Ostrom, eds. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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are perversely anti-rivalrous — any country acting as a free rider will benefit from the efforts of others to combat this problem, even while not contributing itself.
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rival good: once an apple is eaten, it is "used up" and can no longer be eaten by others. Non-tangible goods can also be rivalrous. Examples include the ownership of
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In contrast, non-rival goods may be consumed by one consumer without preventing simultaneous consumption by others. Most examples of non-rival goods are intangible.
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Mark Cooper (July 2018). "Governing the global climate commons: The political economy of state and local action, after the U.S. flip-flop on the Paris Agreement".
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Goods are anti-rivalrous and inclusive if the consumer’s enjoyment increases with how many others consume the good. The concept was introduced by
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Wild fish stocks are a rivalrous good, as the amount of fish caught by one boat reduces the number of fish available to be caught by others.
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made the distinction between private and public goods in 1954 by introducing the concept of nonrival consumption. Economist
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Cornes, R., T. Sandler. 1986. The theory of externalities, public goods, and club goods. Cambridge University Press.
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is anti-rivalrous, because its utility increases with how much it's used by others. Cooper noted that efforts to
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by one party reduces the ability of another party to consume it. A good is considered
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Non-rivalry does not imply that the total production costs are low, but that the
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Leach, J. 2004. A course in public economics. Cambridge University Press: 155–56
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others. For that, recent economic theory views rivalry as a continuum, not as a
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is non-rival. In fact, certain types of intellectual property become
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as criteria for defining consumption goods in 1959 and 1969.  
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Types of goods based on rivalry in consumption and excludability
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prevents simultaneous consumption by other consumers, or if
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Non-rivalrous

economics
good
consumption
consumer
consumption
Paul Samuelson
Richard Musgrave
excludability
tangible
durable
radio spectra
domain names
private goods
Broadcast television
view
intellectual property
anti-rival
language
marginal
binary category
Anti-rival good
Steven Weber
free and open-source software
natural language
combat climate change
Goods § Goods classified by exclusivity and competitiveness
network effect
microeconomics

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