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Pat, 
 
Well, Garrett Hardin's influential article appeared in the early 1960s.  
It drew in turn from the 1954 article in the Journal of Political Economy 
by H. Scott Gordon, "Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource."  That 
dealt with the problem of overharvesting of fisheries and is used in many 
environmental econ textbooks as a paradigmatic example of a certain kind 
of externality, although neither that article nor Hardin's used that term. 
 
It has since become known that the relevant issue in question is that of 
open versus limited access and that "common property" owners may well be 
able to institute regimes to control or limit access.  Dan Bromley of this 
list has written extensively and authoritatively on this topic.  A key 
early paper on this was Ciriacy-Wantrup, S.V. and Richard C. Bishop, 
"'Common Property' as a Concept in Natural Resources Policy," _Natural 
Resources Journal_, 1975, vol. 15, pp. 713-727. 
 
Barkley Rosser 
 
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