Original Product [Wiley] Ours The Case Universal Property

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 coinherited from nature and past human efts, not individually earned. If some of that coinherited wealth were placed in trust each of us, living and yettobe born creating what Barnes calls universal property capitalism would be fundamentally transmed.As Barnes notes, capitalism as we know it has two tragic flaws: it relentlessly widens inequality and destroys nature. Both flaws are a result of onesided property rights that favor capital over everything else. Adding universal property to the current property mix would create a market economy in which businesses prosper, natures limits are respected, and a large middle class thrives. This smart and concise book could set the agenda a postCOVID world.ABOUT THE AUTHORPeter Barnes is a socially responsible entrepreneur and writer about capitalism. His previous books include Who Owns the Sky , Capitalism 3.0, and With Liberty and Dividends All.