Owning Our Future The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Name: Owning Our Future The Emerging Ownership Revolution
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ISBN: 9781605093109

ISBN-10: 1605093106

ISBN-13: 9781605093109

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marjorie Kelly, David C. Korten

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All of the current attempts to address the economic collapse are overlooking an essential factor: ownership. So long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing monetary returns per quarter for a narrow group of individuals the economy will be subject to crippling boom-and-bust cycles. But now people are experimenting with new forms of enterprise ownership--we are in the midst of the most creative period of economic innovation since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Marjorie Kelly calls these new forms generative: life-serving, aimed at creating the conditions for life for many generations to come. They are in contrast to the dominant ownership designs of today, which…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Foreword



Prologue: The Journey Ahead



The Overbuilt House of Claims: Extractive Ownership as the Cause of Financial Collapse



Debt, Inc.: Extractive Design



The Community Bank: Generative Design



Wall Street: Capital Markets on Autopilot



Overload: The Expanding House of Claims



Collapse: The Eroding Middle-Class Base



Returning to Earth: Ecological Values as the Seedbed of a Generative Economy



Walking Up: From Maximizing Profits to Sustaining Life



The Island: From Growth to Sufficiency



Bringing Forth a World: From Individualism to Community



Creating Living Companies: The Five Core Elements of Generative Ownership Design



Living Purpose: Creating the Conditions for Life



Rooted Membership: Ownership in Living Hands



Mission-Controlled Governance: Humans at the Helm



Stakeholder Finance: Capital as Friend



Ethical Networks: Reinforcing Shared Values


Epilogue: Next


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index


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