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

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

by Michael Heller

About this title: 25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why cant we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why wont they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service lags far behind Japans and Koreas. Why are we wasting our airwaves? 98 ... read more

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goodreads rating 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Oct 11, 2009
By Kevin, New Orleans, LA

"So far it is interesting. I didn't realize this was new information; that private property adds expense to collaboration, sometimes to the point that projects are abandoned. We have have popular cultural references where the private owner who holds out against big company buy-outs becomes a hero!

It is intesting, tho, to learn of some of the contemporary implications in patents and other intellectual property."

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May 19, 2009
By Yair, Palo Alto, CA

"Interesting ideas, but somewhat repetitive without a good take home or strategy for overcoming the issues presented. This would have made a better book if it was edited down to about 1/2 its current length."

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Apr 6, 2009
By Surfing Moose, Vancouver, Canada

"This book was ho-hum. The examples were interesting and some of them were thought provoking, but too much "me me me" from Heller ("aren't I a clever boy")."

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Mar 28, 2009
By Gail, The United States

""Heller summarizes his research into "anti-commons"--the problem that arises when resources that are most efficient in some minimum quantity (like land) are divided into parcels that make them economically useless. The trouble with an anti-commons is that the process is asymmetrical: it is very easy to fragment land (or intellectual property) but very difficult to re-assemble it. The result is the "gridlock" in the title"

This was an interesting book. It deserves a second read, because I skimmed much of the ending since it needed to be returned to the library. The complicated issue of individual patents holding up so much research and development of products was an eye opener and a sad setback for growth in medicine, technology, etc."

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