Question

Connecting with the tragedy of the commons concept, how did the commons start? Why did we move away from enclosures?

What is feudalism as a system? Are there spill-over effects of feudalism in other cultures and geographic areas? Does the feudal system relate to the enclosure movement?

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SOLUTION

START OF COMMONS AND THE MOVE AWAY OF ENCLOSURES

In economic terms, the tragedy of the commons occurs when an economic good is both rivalrous in consumption and non - excludable. These types of goods are called common - pool resource goods ( as opposed to private goods, club goods or public goods. A good that is rivalrous in consumption means that when someone consumes a unit of the good, then that unit is no longer available for the others to consume all the consumers are rivals competing the good and each others consumption subtracts from the total stock of goods available. Note that in order for a tragedy for the commons to occur the good must also be scarce , since the non scarce good cannot be available.

The enclosure movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of the village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food and change it to the privately owned land usually with walls fences and hedges around.

FEUDAL SYSTEM AND EFFECTS OF FEUDAL SYSTEM IN OTHER COUNTRIES

In a feudal system, a peasant or a worker known as a vassal receive a piece of land in return for serving a land or a king, especially during times of war. Vassals were expected to perform various duties in exchange of their own fiefs or areas of land.

Yes there are spill over effects of feudalism in other cultures and geographical areas. Historiographic construct designating the social, economic and political conditions in western Europe during the early middle ages , the long strench of time between 5th and 12th centuries. Feudalism labels are invented long after the period in which they are applied. They refer to what those who invented them perceived as the most significant of the early middle ages.   

FEUDAL SYSTEM RELATED TO ENCLOSURE MOVEMENT

Yes, the feudal system relate to the enclosure movement, since the enclosure act allowed wealthy lands to purchase public fields and push out small scale farmers causing migration of men looking for wage labor in cities which may effect the feudal system