A lot of these concepts lack specification on the requirements that must be met for them to occur. If people feel a common responsibility for something, the concept does not apply at all or only to a lesser degree. Our fundamental economic beliefs about growth still reflect this, even with rescue arguments about growth in productivity and efficiency (which rarely apply to any natural resource). In essence the peasants of yesterday are the B.A. of today.

However, there is also the comedy of the commons and the tragedy of the anticommons for that matter. Open source for example doesn't suffer from the tragedy of the commons as much as it is suffering from the tragedy of the anticommons.