Garrett Hardin

Garrett Hardin (1915 - 2003)

Trained as an ecologist and microbiologist he is best known for his 1968 essay, The Tragedy of the Commons, Science, 162, now reprinted in over 100 anthologies and widely accepted as a fundamental contribution to ecology, population theory, economics and political science. The application of this essay to the problems of foreign aid and immigration was captured in his 1974 essay Living on a Lifeboat, BioScience, 24(10), and more recently elucidated in The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 9(5), 1994."


 * Cofounder, NARAL
 * Advisory Board, Californians for Population Stabilization
 * 1980  Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
 * 1990  Award, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
 * 1990  Population-Environment Balance Carrying Capacity award
 * Former member, Society for General Systems Research