Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (Introduction)

Authors

Michael A. Heller, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These problems have solutions that can jump-start innovation and help save our troubled economy. So, what's holding us back?

Disciplines

Law | Law and Economics | Property Law and Real Estate

Recommended Citation

Michael A. Heller, Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (Introduction), Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives, Michael Heller, Basic Books, 2010 (2010).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2522