<P> German historian Joachim Radkau thought Hardin advocates strict management of common goods via increased government involvement or international regulation bodies . An asserted impending "tragedy of the commons" is frequently warned of as a consequence of the adoption of policies which restrict private property and espouse expansion of public property . </P> <P> Privatization works when the person who owns the property (or rights of access to that property) pays the full price of its exploitation . As discussed above negative externalities (negative results, such as air or water pollution, that do not proportionately affect the user of the resource) is often a feature driving the tragedy of the commons . Internalizing the externalities, in other words ensuring that the users of resource pay for all of the consequences of its use, can provide an alternate solution between privatization and regulation . One example is gasoline taxes which are intended to include both the cost of road maintenance and of air pollution . This solution can provide the flexibility of privatization while minimizing the amount of government oversight and overhead that is needed . </P> <P> The environmentalist Derrick Jensen claims the tragedy of the commons is used as propaganda for private ownership . He says it has been used by the political right wing to hasten the final enclosure of the "common resources" of third world and indigenous people worldwide, as a part of the Washington Consensus . He argues that in true situations, those who abuse the commons would have been warned to desist and if they failed would have punitive sanctions against them . He says that rather than being called "The Tragedy of the Commons", it should be called "the Tragedy of the Failure of the Commons". </P> <P> Hardin's work was also criticised as historically inaccurate in failing to account for the demographic transition, and for failing to distinguish between common property and open access resources . In a similar vein, Carl Dahlman argues that commons were effectively managed to prevent overgrazing . Likewise, Susan Jane Buck Cox argues that the common land example used to argue this economic concept is on very weak historical ground, and misrepresents what she terms was actually the "triumph of the commons": the successful common usage of land for many centuries . She argues that social changes and agricultural innovation, and not the behaviour of the commoners, led to the demise of the commons . </P>

1. discuss the view that the overuse of common access resources is best addressed by government