Nearly 80 million Americans live in some form of condo association. Does every buboo, dockers and tulip get a day in court if they don't like what the association is doing? Or does the association have the final say on these property ownership questions? In california, after this case, a basely passed booboo protection ten says you can sign whatever kind of name association you want, a document you want, but you can't exclude a cat or a dog. So it does push us back to the question, what should be our fundamental values that go into what it means to own at home in this country? And maybe some of that can and should be protected from
Law professors Michael Heller and James Salzman talk about their book, Mine! with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Heller and Salzman argue that ownership is trickier and more complicated than it looks. While we tend to think of something as either mine or not mine, there's often ambiguity and a continuum about who owns what. Salzman and Heller explore a wide and surprising range of property rights from everyday life. The conversation includes a discussion of the insights of Ronald Coase on the assignment of property rights when rights conflict.