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July 17, 2008

Tragedy of the Anticommons: Highly Recommended

Michael Heller (2008), The Gridlock Economy (New York: Basic: 9780465029167).

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Tim Wu has a good review of this on Slate...

http://www.slate.com/id/2195158

My favorite line "Michael Heller calls this an anti-commons—we used to just call it transactions costs—but God bless him."

So Brad, what's Heller's new insight?

"one of the most perceptive popular books on property since Das Kapital."

Perceptive, all right. POPULAR?? At any point??

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