
Ours
The Case for Universal Property
Peter Barnes(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-1-5095-4483-7 (ISBN)
Description
Neither our current regime of individual property rights, nor rigid state ownership, have proven very effective in producing prosperous, just, environmentally flourishing societies. But what if there was another kind of property that, if added to markets, could transform them, our society and our planet?
In this provocative book, Peter Barnes argues for injecting markets with a type of property that isn't mine, yours or the state's, but ours jointly -- literally held in trust for each of us, living and yet-to-be born. Such property, if instituted widely, could protect critical ecosystems, pay lifelong dividends to everyone, and reduce the likelihood of financial crashes. The result would be a market economy in which businesses prosper, nature's limits are respected and a large middle class thrives.
This smart and concise book, with its argument for expanding, not threatening, property rights to meet twenty-first century needs, is an agenda-setting read that could provide a model for a post COVID-19 world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-4483-7 (9781509544837)
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Person
Peter Barnes is an entrepreneur and writer. He co-founded several socially responsible businesses (including Working Assets Money Fund and Credo Mobile) and has previously written for The Economist, Newsweek, and The New Republic.
Content
Acknowledgments
Foreword by James K. Boyce
Author's Note
1 What Is Universal Property?
2 Why Markets Fail
3 Twenty-First Century Realities
4 The Jobs Of Universal Property
5 Interlude for Imagination
6 Universal Money Pumps
7 Toll Gates at Nature's Edges
8 The Politics of Universal Property
9 The Adjacent Possible
Notes
Bibliography
Index