Why Harden's Article Speaks So Much to So Many People

Harden's article was cited nearly 13,000 or 30,000 times at the time when he published it. The reason why it speaks so much to so many people is because harden wasn't necessarily making a technical argument, but rather a very moral one. He asked you to picture a pasture which is open to all, and it is expected that each herdsman will try to keep as many cattle as possible on the commons. Now such an arrangement will work satisfactorily for multiple centuries, because there are situations like trival walls. There's poaching and disease that keeps the number of both the the men, the herdsmen, as well as the cattle, well below the carrying capacity