Title

Camaraderie, common pool congestion, and the optimal size of surf gangs

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2018

Publication Title

Economics of Governance

Volume

19

First Page

381

Last Page

396

Keywords

Club goods, Common-property resources, Public choice

Abstract

© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. This study integrates some of the seminal public choice research on clubs and recent research on prison gangs into an analysis of the formation of surf gangs. More specifically, this study presents a model examining how surf break congestion, localism effort, and surfing camaraderie work to determine the optimal size of a local surf gang. The benefits of surfing in groups fall under the heading of camaraderie, and their presence means that the optimal surf gang size is bounded away from one. The benefits of camaraderie in surfing will likely be exhausted at small numbers owing to crowding of the surf break.

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