Mine!
How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
(Sprache: Englisch)
“Mine” is one of the first words babies learn, and by the time we grow up, the idea of ownership seems natural, whether we are buying a cup of coffee or a house. But who controls the space behind your airplane seat: you, reclining, or the squished laptop...
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“Mine” is one of the first words babies learn, and by the time we grow up, the idea of ownership seems natural, whether we are 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 you? Why is plagiarism wrong, but it’s okay to knock off a recipe or a dress design? And after a snowstorm, why does a chair in the street hold your parking space in Chicago, while in New York you lose both the space and the chair?In Mine!, Michael Heller and James Salzman, two of the world’s leading authorities on ownership, explain these puzzles and many more. Remarkably, they reveal, there are just six simple rules that everyone uses to claim everything. Owners choose the rule that steers us to do what they want. But we can pick differently. This is true not just for airplane seats, but also for battles over digital privacy, climate change, and wealth inequality. Mine! draws on mind-bending, often infuriating, and always fascinating accounts from business, history, courtrooms, and everyday life to reveal how the rules of ownership control our lives and shape our world.
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Chapter 1First Come, Last Served
Line-Standers
The best free show in Washington, D.C. is the Supreme Court. The courtroom is both ornate and intimate. You sit only steps from the justices of the highest court in the land and listen to America s top advocates. This is democracy at its best, open and accessible to all. If you want to witness the fate of abortion, gun control, or religious freedom, you can. But you need to get there early there are on average fewer than one hundred seats available for the public, and admission is first come, first served.
For high-profile cases, people arrive a day or more ahead of time, armed with camping chairs, sleeping bags, ponchos, and extra batteries for their smartphones. Folks in line tend to look out for one another Supreme Court police officers refuse to monitor the line. If you have to go to the bathroom, those around you will hold your place. And they will also be on guard for people cutting in or adding friends. If someone does that, they are harangued with cries of no cutting and back of the line.
As the time to enter the Court approaches, though, a strange thing happens. Many of the disheveled people nearest the front of the line exchange their spots with gray-suited men and women. A little later the well-dressed enter the courtroom and take the best seats while those farther back in the line are not even admitted. What is going on?
Welcome to the line-standing business. Companies are paying line-standers, sometimes homeless people, to arrive days ahead, secure a spot at the front, and then wait and wait and wait. At the last minute, by the Court entrance etched with the words equal justice under law, the line-standers give way to paying clients who have the money to get in first but not the time or patience to wait. Small start-ups like Linestanding.com, Skip the Line, and Washington Express charge clients up to $6,000 for a free seat, while paying minimum wage to the hired line-standers
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who wait in the rain and cold.
Line-standing companies have transformed how seats become mine not just for Supreme Court arguments but also for open congressional hearings where the nation s laws are debated. Hearing rooms used to be free to anyone willing to wait to see their elected representatives in action. Now those hearings are often packed with lawyers and lobbyists, all of whom paid, none of whom waited. The same transformation is happening in lines for new passports at the local federal building or building permits at City Hall.
Paid line-standers are a booming business in the private sector as well. If you re willing to pay, you can get to the front for new iPhones at Apple stores, hot skatewear apparel at Supreme, rush Broadway show tickets, or even prime spots on New York City streets to watch the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade. One line-stander employed by SOLD (Same Ole Line Dudes), a line-standing start-up, waited forty-three hours holding a spot so a client could be sure to get an audition for Shark Tank, the hit reality TV show for start-ups. Odds are that Robert Samuel, the entrepreneurial founder of SOLD, would have done better on the show than the guy from Colorado who paid Samuel for his place in line.
The same transition is happening online. The musical Hamilton was continuously sold out on Broadway for years after it opened. The producers of the show made most tickets available on a first-in-time basis on their website. The problem was that tech-savvy scalpers created computer programs bots that bought up all the tickets the microsecond they became available. As a result, the artists and producers earned only the tickets face value while fans paid scalpers premiums, o
Line-standing companies have transformed how seats become mine not just for Supreme Court arguments but also for open congressional hearings where the nation s laws are debated. Hearing rooms used to be free to anyone willing to wait to see their elected representatives in action. Now those hearings are often packed with lawyers and lobbyists, all of whom paid, none of whom waited. The same transformation is happening in lines for new passports at the local federal building or building permits at City Hall.
Paid line-standers are a booming business in the private sector as well. If you re willing to pay, you can get to the front for new iPhones at Apple stores, hot skatewear apparel at Supreme, rush Broadway show tickets, or even prime spots on New York City streets to watch the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade. One line-stander employed by SOLD (Same Ole Line Dudes), a line-standing start-up, waited forty-three hours holding a spot so a client could be sure to get an audition for Shark Tank, the hit reality TV show for start-ups. Odds are that Robert Samuel, the entrepreneurial founder of SOLD, would have done better on the show than the guy from Colorado who paid Samuel for his place in line.
The same transition is happening online. The musical Hamilton was continuously sold out on Broadway for years after it opened. The producers of the show made most tickets available on a first-in-time basis on their website. The problem was that tech-savvy scalpers created computer programs bots that bought up all the tickets the microsecond they became available. As a result, the artists and producers earned only the tickets face value while fans paid scalpers premiums, o
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Mine! “
Introduction: Who Gets What and Why1 First Come, Last Served
2 Possession Is One-Tenth of the Law
3 I Reap What You Sow
4 My Home Is Not My Castle
5 Our Bodies, Not Our Selves
6 The Meek Shall Inherit Very Little
7 The Future of Ownership—and the World
Epilogue: The Toddler’s Rules of Ownership
Thanks
Notes
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Michael A. Heller, James Salzman
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.JAMES SALZMAN is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the UCSB Bren School of the Environment. He is the author of Drinking Water: A History.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Michael A. Heller , James Salzman
- 2022, 336 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: ANCHOR
- ISBN-10: 0525565507
- ISBN-13: 9780525565505
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Thought-provoking. . . . Mine! sets out to change the way we think about what we own, which is often decidedly at odds with reality. The New York TimesMine! does for ownership what . . . Freakonomics did for money: it shows you the world through a different lens. The Sunday Times (London)
Challenges our assumptions about who owns what and explores how those assumptions can be manipulated, for good or for ill. The Boston Globe
Heller and Salzman examine a wide array of ways that people lay claim to things, both actual (as in treasure) and more abstract (as in ideas). Since ownership is constructed, it s always up for grabs. The New Yorker
Mine! is enjoyable, well-written and with a deftness of touch that belies the radical re-examination of property rights at its heart. Financial Times
This delicious book will guide you through the confusing maze of ownership disputes that bedevil our daily lives. Who owns your private information, your Netflix password, your yard s airspace, and the chair of your deceased parents that you and your sister now both want? It s often unclear: read and prepare yourself. Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
This book about ownership rights is incredibly detailed and includes amazing insights. The authors are writing about things like who owns the water beneath your house, but they include brilliant examples and anecdotes. Forbes
Mine! is one of those rare books that make you feel smarter and change the way you see the world. So much of the news I read makes more sense now. I haven t had an experience like this as a reader since Freakonomics. The authors deliver a rollicking good read, filled with amazing stories about the secret rules of ownership and why they work in unexpected ways. This is way too much fun for such an important book by leading minds in their field. Barton Gellman, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Angler and
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Dark Mirror
I call this an academic barfight book. Completely joyful to read but it s a thing to start and settle fights because everyone thinks they re right. Roman Mars, host of 99% Invisible
Illuminating. . . . Readers will gain fresh insights into the law and society from this entertaining and instructive guide. Publishers Weekly
Who knew there are hidden rules of ownership controlling our lives? I didn t until I read this fascinating, illuminating book. I m very glad I did. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion
A thoughtful and illuminating study. Kirkus Reviews
A fascinating discussion of what ownership is, what it isn t, and what it might be. It s immensely clarifying, beautifully written, and perfectly timed and it might improve the world to boot. Cass R. Sunstein, co-author of Nudge and author of Too Much Information
Filled with one irresistible and revealing story after another where the secret turns out to be who owns what, from Adam and Eve to the birth of barbed wire. Mine! will challenge how you think about everything from the groceries in your shopping cart to concert tickets on a scalping site. Charles Fishman, author of One Giant Leap and The Wal-Mart Effect
I call this an academic barfight book. Completely joyful to read but it s a thing to start and settle fights because everyone thinks they re right. Roman Mars, host of 99% Invisible
Illuminating. . . . Readers will gain fresh insights into the law and society from this entertaining and instructive guide. Publishers Weekly
Who knew there are hidden rules of ownership controlling our lives? I didn t until I read this fascinating, illuminating book. I m very glad I did. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion
A thoughtful and illuminating study. Kirkus Reviews
A fascinating discussion of what ownership is, what it isn t, and what it might be. It s immensely clarifying, beautifully written, and perfectly timed and it might improve the world to boot. Cass R. Sunstein, co-author of Nudge and author of Too Much Information
Filled with one irresistible and revealing story after another where the secret turns out to be who owns what, from Adam and Eve to the birth of barbed wire. Mine! will challenge how you think about everything from the groceries in your shopping cart to concert tickets on a scalping site. Charles Fishman, author of One Giant Leap and The Wal-Mart Effect
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