Ours : The Case for Universal Property, Paperback / softback Book

Ours : The Case for Universal Property Paperback / softback

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We think our wealth today comes from productive corporations and workers, but they merely add icing to a cake baked long ago.

In this provocative book, Peter Barnes argues that most of today's wealth is co-inherited from nature and past human efforts, not individually earned.

If some of that co-inherited wealth were placed in trust for each of us, living and yet-to-be born – creating what Barnes calls “universal property” – capitalism would be fundamentally transformed. As Barnes notes, capitalism as we know it has two tragic flaws: it relentlessly widens inequality and destroys nature.

Both flaws are a result of one-sided property rights that favor capital over everything else.

Adding universal property to the current property mix would create a market economy in which businesses prosper, nature’s limits are respected, and a large middle class thrives.

This smart and concise book could set the agenda for a post-COVID world.

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