Description
| Product ID: | 9781509544837 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Ours |
| Subtitle: | The Case for Universal Property |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Barnes |
| Page Count: | 140 |
| Subjects: | Politics and government, Politics & government, Political economy, Political economy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
| Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-02 |
