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I have modified the article to refer to "goods" in preference to "good" since the Wiktionary definition for goods states that it is "plural only; not used in singular form".

I would also suggest that the article is moved to "Common goods". This would help to alleviate any confusion with the philosophical meaning of "the common good".

See also a discussion on the Veblen goods discussion page.

RichBerry 13:10, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

The article states "The goods referred to as common pool resources are also known as common goods". So as I understand these are synonymous? Why is this article then not merged with the Common-pool_resource article? A partial explanation can be found here [1], but this should also be stated in the article if these two articles are not merged Skaakt 08:16, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

IMHO it would be a good idea to merge these two articles into one to avoid irritations. One section in the present article explaining CPRs and in which way they differ from ordinary common goods should be sufficient for the moment. - Perhaps it would be better to merge common pool resource into this to maintain the important link with various other types of good (inferior, normal, etc) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.240.69 (talk) 08:20, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

The CPRs will be removed from the table by me since I share the opinion of Krol:k on the discussion page mentioned above. Is it Common good or Common goods? I would have expected to find this article under Commmon goods (unless I had searched for the philosophical term ;-)). However, I'm no native speaker. 84.178.122.250 19:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I rewrote the article on common goods, defining CPR clearly as a sub-type of common goods. Consequently, the typology table now shows CPR in brackets. There is no reason to merge the two articles, as the CPR article is important enough to be standalone. Maybe someone could extend the article on common goods by adding some relevant references. Krol:k (talk) 01:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)