Which outcome occurred during Byzantine silk production when legal protection preventing raw silk export from Tyrian merchants failed?

💡 Explanation

When legal protections failed, a tragedy of the commons emerged because the regulatory mechanisms that previously limited individual incentive to control supply of raw material was removed, therefore regional agents became capable power brokers, rather than compliant trade participants.

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