You work in an office and one of your co-workers has announced his retirement. You have offered to purchase the retirement gift, so you place a collection jar in the lunch room for anonymous donations to help pay for the gift. After a week you find that very few dollars are in the jar, so you end up paying for a large share of the retirement gift. You are the victim of the: A. common resource problem.
B. private good problem.
C. overuse of a common resource problem.
D. free-rider problem.

In which of the following games is it clearly the case that the cooperative outcome of the game is good for the two players and bad for society? a. two oil companies own adjacent oil fields over a common pool of oil, and each company decides whether to drill one well or two wells.b. two airlines dominate air travel between city a and city b, and each airline decides whether to charge a "high" airfare or a "low" airfare on flights between those two cities.c. two superpowers decide whether to build new weapons or to disarm.d. in all of the above cases, the cooperative outcome of the game is good for the two players and bad for society