I can imagine a few technical problems, like determining what level of usage is optimal (you don’t want people to overfish the lake, but you don’t know exactly how many fish are there), or the costs of policing. But it would be possible to propose a few dozen situations where this strategy could be used, and address these issues individually; and then perhaps only use the strategy in some of them. Or perhaps by examining individual specific cases, we would discover a common pattern why this doesn’t work.
Sounds like auctioning the usage of the common.
I can imagine a few technical problems, like determining what level of usage is optimal (you don’t want people to overfish the lake, but you don’t know exactly how many fish are there), or the costs of policing. But it would be possible to propose a few dozen situations where this strategy could be used, and address these issues individually; and then perhaps only use the strategy in some of them. Or perhaps by examining individual specific cases, we would discover a common pattern why this doesn’t work.