Owning our future the emerging ownership revolution

What is the alternative to an economic system repeatedly battered by financial hurricanes? Reporting from around the world, veteran business journalist Marjorie Kelly finds the answer in emerging new forms of ownership that combine the flexibility and freedom of traditional private enterprise with a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelly, Marjorie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, Calif. Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2012
Edition:1st ed
Series:BK Currents
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Foreword / By David Korten
  • 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
  • Waking 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the author