Sentence examples for problems of collective from inspiring English sources

There were no residential dorms assigned to the college, but the anarchist tradition of collective living was encouraged by workshops and courses on the subject — including "Anarchism and Everyday Life, Community Controlof of Utilities," and "The Problems of Collective Living".

And if, in spite of the extra-terrestrial colonies, the stature of acculturated man should fail to increase, it will be because of some observable and even measurable failure to solve the age-old problems of collective living here on earth.

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the most widely held shares in pension funds, says: "This book exposes the multiple leakages to various agents operating between savers and pensioners and the companies they are invested in, as well as the problems of collective industry failure".

Adaptations in environmental management often involve complex, including wicked, problems of collective action.

Situations in which a member of a population P is willing to engage in a certain course of action provided that a large enough portion of P engages in some appropriate behavior are typical problems of collective action.

Although technically these are not public goods in Samuelson's sense, we can refer to them as collective goods and we can treat provision of them as essentially problems of collective action.

Alain Vidalies, transport minister, pointed to "a problem of collective behaviour".

The impediment is what the late economist Mancur Olson called the problem of collective action, a phenomenon familiar to anyone who has ever tried to get neighbors to pitch in on building a fence.

Impala said last week that it welcomed the commission's "very strong" objections to the merger and that they reflected the concerns of independent labels that a merger of two of the five leading companies would "disproportionately aggravate" an existing problem of collective dominance.

In this context, we point out that, without market segmentation, buyers face the standard free-rider problem of collective action (Olson 1965; Hardin 1971).

We propose that despite the recent economic crisis and the burgeoning era of austerity, the primary issue is not one of scarcity of resources, but rather a problem of collective decision-making.