Three business people meet for lunch at an Indian restaurant.They decide that each person will order an item off the menu,and they will share all dishes.They will split the cost of the final bill evenly among each of the people at the table.When the food is delivered to the table,each person faces incentives similar to the

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Each person at the table is consuming a common resource good (i.e. the food). Since they are sharing the dishes, they face the incentive to take more than their fair share in order to maximize their own individual consumption. This is similar to the situation of a common resource good, where each user has an incentive to take more than their fair share, leading to overuse of the resource.

Three Business People Meet for Lunch at an Indian Restaurant