I'm Sorry About That, but I Think It's a Broader Issue.

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We tend to work things out, because you don't want to to esclate these things. Much of that is technology contingent. How should you be able to own your body? You know, can you? Should we allow women to be seregates? The technology changes the contours of that. A lot more people call t polarization, partisanshipi i think it's a broader issue. An ownership is one way, is one way that am that comes out a te thing is, you're absolutely right in that,. What we assume a is, a is inviolate, right? You can't sell parts of your body.

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.