The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives »

Michael Heller is one of America’s leading authorities on ownership. He is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School and has served as the school’s Vice Dean for Intellectual Life. He lives in New York and Los Angeles.

A startling and definitive account of the “tragedy of the anticommons,” a hidden economic phenomenon that costs trillions in lost productivity and affects every field

List of Figures

1 The Tragedy of the Anticommons 1

2 Welcome to the Lexicon 23

3 Where Are the Cures? 49

4 You Can't Hear Me Now 79

5 Block Parties, Share Choppers, and BANANA Republics 107

6 Empty Moscow Storefronts 143

7 The World Is Mine Oyster 165

8 A Solutions Tool Kit 187

Acknowledgments 199

Notes 203

Index 247