Learn how free riders benefit from a collective good or economic resources without paying their share toward its costs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catching a ride for free? Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and ...

On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race.

Public goods create a peculiar dilemma: everyone likes the benefits, but paying for them is another matter. Economists call this the free-rider problem—people can enjoy protection, clean air, or herd ...

Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "A Sampling Approach to the Free-Rider Problem." In Essays in Public Economics: The Kiryat Anavim Papers, edited by Agnar Sandmo. Lexington, MA: Lexington ...