Owning our future : the emerging ownership revolution / / Marjorie Kelly

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825938103321
• Autore: Kelly Marjorie <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, Calif., : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-48860-3; 9786613583833; 1-60509-311-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/4
• Soggetti: Community development; Cooperation; Employee ownership; Right of property; Finance, Personal
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Journeys to the generative economy"--Cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.