Owning Our Future

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword

Prologue: The Journey Ahead

I The Overbuilt House of Claims Extractive Ownership as the Cause of Financial Collapse

One Debt Inc.: Extractive Design

Two The Community Bank: Generative Design

Three Wall Street: Capital Markets on Autopilot

Four Overload: The Expanding House of Claims

Five Collapse: The Eroding Middle-Class Base

II Returning to Earth Ecological Values as the Seedbed of a Generative Economy

Six Waking Up: From Maximizing Profits to Sustaining Life

Seven The Island: From Growth to Sufficiency

Eight Bringing Forth a World: From Individualism to Community

III Creating Living Companies The Five Core Elements of Generative Ownership Design

Nine Living Purpose: Creating the Conditions for Life

Ten Rooted Membership: Ownership in Living Hands

Eleven Mission-Controlled Governance: Humans at the Helm

Twelve Stakeholder Finance: Capital as Friend

Thirteen Ethical Networks: Reinforcing Shared Values

Epilogue: Next

Acknowledgments

Index