Hadthe contestbeen heldfouryearslater, after the TimesestablisheditsNeediestCasesFund, shewouldprobably have Shared herprize with the poor and thehungrysheread about in the newspaper.
Yet various economists, including the late Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, have shown that in some cases communities can and do come together to solve such tragedies, often finding a middle way between nationalizing and privatizing the threatened resource.