Deese R S
Department of History, Boston University, 226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Endeavour. 2008 Dec;32(4):152-5. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2008.09.005. Epub 2008 Nov 8.
Since 1968, when Garrett Hardin wrote his essay entitled 'The Tragedy of the Commons', the idea that human reproduction must be brought under the coercive control of state power has been rejected by every government on earth, with the qualified exception of the People's Republic of China. The metaphor that Hardin used to convey his message, however, has proliferated, adapted and evolved. Its original neo-Malthusian message now largely forgotten, 'The Tragedy of the Commons' has become a wildly popular metaphor in a variety of fields from ecology to property law to the programmatic architecture of the Internet.
自1968年加勒特·哈丁撰写了题为《公地悲剧》的文章以来，人类生殖必须置于国家权力强制控制之下的观点已被世界上每个政府所摒弃，中华人民共和国是唯一的例外。然而，哈丁用来传达其观点的隐喻却不断扩散、改编和演变。其最初的新马尔萨斯主义观点如今已基本被遗忘，《公地悲剧》在从生态学到财产法再到互联网的程序架构等各个领域都成了广受欢迎的隐喻。
