Break It Down Show

Michael Heller - Mine!: Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives - Michael Heller is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School. He is the author of The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives. Michael Heller is the co-author of Mine: Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives. Get Mine! on Amazon at: MINE! blows out of the water everything we think we know about who owns what. Ownership seems natural, whether buying a cup of coffee or a house. But who controls the space behind your airplane seat: you reclining or the squished laptop user behind? Why is plagiarism wrong, but it’s okay to knock-off a recipe or a dress design? MINE! explains these puzzles and many more. Seriously, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show!   For the  of this episode head to ​Haiku Who gets what and wh