Episode 151: Hungry Ghosts

We talk with Dave Fagundes about sharing, abandoning, and property law's role in promoting happiness. Topics include the usual nonsense, notions of happiness, consumption and acquisition, charity, and home ownership.

This show’s links:

Dave Fagundes's faculty profile and writing

David Fagundes, Why Less Property Is More: Inclusion, Dispossession, and Subjective Well-Being

About Life Is Beautiful

About Marie Kondo

David Fagundes, Buying Happiness: Property, Acquisition, and Subjective Well-Being

Roger Crisp's entry on Well-Being in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (including discussions of Bentham's notion and preferentist accounts)

About Mr. Burns, character from The Simpsons

Rebecca Solnit, The Loneliness of Donald Trump

Juliet Schor and William Attwood-Charles, The Sharing Economy: Labor, Inequality and Sociability on For-Profit Platforms

David Fagundes, The Social Norms of Waiting in Line

Oral Argument 150: Shutting Down Hal (guest Christina Mulligan); Christina Mulligan, Revenge Against Robots

Lior Strahilevitz, The Right to Abandon

Eduardo Peñalver, The Illusory Right to Abandon

Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz, The End of Ownership

Joshua Fairfield, Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom

Special Guest: Dave Fagundes.