Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution: The Emerging Ownership Revolution (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

Kelly, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605093106 ISBN 13: 9781605093109

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

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 this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605093106
• ISBN 13: 9781605093109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288