Jim Salzman & Michael Heller | How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives | Talks at Google
122Jim Salzman & Michael Heller discuss their book "Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives." When is it okay to recline your airplane seat? Why does HBO want you to share your password illegally? What do you really own when you click the “buy now” button? And how is South Dakota making you poorer? In the spirited style of Freakonomics and Tipping Point, Michael Heller and Jim Salzman explore fun, surprising, and often infuriating real-life stories that reveal who gets what in the 21st century. Remarkably, there are just six simple stories that everyone uses to claim everything in the world. These are the stories kids use to solve fights on the playground – and they offer our best chance to address really big problems like preserving online freedom, cooling our warming planet, and curbing America’s new wealth aristocracy. Ownership shapes every single day of our lives. Every minute! Savvy owners choose the story that steers us to do what they want. But don’t be fooled. Ownership is always up for grabs and the prize goes to those who know how its hidden rules really work.
About the panelists
Jim Salzman is one of the world’s leading environmental scholars. He is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and at the School of the Environment at UC Santa Barbara. An international expert on drinking water, he frequently appears as a media commentator and has lectured on every continent. A prolific author, there have been over 100,000 downloads of his articles. His broad-ranging scholarship addresses topics ranging from water to wildlife, from climate change to creating markets for ecosystems. His previous popular book is Drinking Water: A History.
Michael Heller is one of the world’s leading authorities on ownership, on who gets what and why. He is Vice Dean and Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School. Heller’s teaching and writing ranges from innovation and entrepreneurship to biomedical research policy and African-American land ownership. In each area, he helps people see and cure ownership dilemmas no one had previously noticed. His previous books include The Choice Theory of Contracts and The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives.
Get the book here: https://www.minethebook.com/.
Moderated by Jeff Cox.