Ours: The Case for Universal Property

by Peter Barnes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509544836
• ISBN13: 9781509544837
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"