Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Kelly, Marjorie

ISBN 10: 1605093106 / ISBN 13: 9781605093109

Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

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Synopsis:

As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people are experimenting with new forms of ownership, which Marjorie Kelly calls generative: aimed at creating the conditions for life for many generations to come. These designs may hold the key to the deep transformation our civilization needs.

To understand these emerging alternatives, Kelly reports from all over the world, visiting a community-owned wind facility in Massachusetts, a lobster cooperative in Maine, a multibillion-dollar employee-owned department-store chain in London, a foundation-owned pharmaceutical company in Denmark, a farmer-owned dairy in Wisconsin, and other places where a hopeful new economy is being built. Along the way, she finds the five essential patterns of ownership design that make these models work.

About the Author: Marjorie Kelly is a fellow at Tellus Institute, a Boston think tank, and director of ownership strategy with Cutting Edge Capital. She is the author of The Divine Right of Capital and was cofounder and president of Business Ethics magazine.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership ...
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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