The ownership solution : toward a shared capitalism for the twenty-first century

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The ownership solution : toward a shared capitalism for the twenty-first century

Jeff Gates ; with a foreword by Stephan Schmidheiny

Allen Lane : Penguin Press, 1998

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Gates makes a radical case for a new kind of capitalism to displace today's socially divisive patterns of ownership. Gates' ideas are ideologically appealing across the political spectrum and presents individual ownership as a means for citizens to exercise greater influence over the kind of economy and society they live in.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Why capitalism creates so few capitalists: disconnected capitalism
  • reconstructing capitalism
  • why does capitalism create so few capitalists?
  • putting the "own" back into ownership
  • up-close capitalism - the employee ownership solution
  • new property paradigms
  • toward a workable ethic
  • reinventing labour unions
  • Part 2 A capitalism that works for everyone: making money
  • capitalism as if our children mattered
  • community without the communism
  • the politics of ownership. Part 3 Towards a 21st-century capitalism: reinventing capitalism
  • re-engineering capitalism for inclusion
  • creating a capitalism that creates more capitalists. Part 4 Coping with global capitalism: the development dilemma
  • reinventing capitalism in Europe
  • capitalism with Chinese characteristics
  • Latin America, the Caribbean and the Catholic church
  • South Africa - overcoming economic apartheid
  • Islamic ownership - the vice-regents. Appendix: making assets accountable
  • dissecting modern ownership
  • core ingredients in any ownership solution
  • GDP - what gets measured gets managed.

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