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Scattering and the open-field system.
§Dahlman: scattering helps preserve OFS.
§By increasing costs of private enclosure, scattering reduces “hold-up” threats.
§Scattering protects the system against the individual.
§Fenoaltea: stands Dahlman on his head.
§Collective activities (especially harvesting) capacity constrained.
§Not all parts of all fields can be harvested in some years.
§Scattering protects the individual against the system.
§A different sort of risk-diversification argument.