Owning our future: the emerging ownership revolution : journeys to the generative economy

Foreword / David Korten

Prologue: The Journey Ahead

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

1. Debt, Inc.: Extractive Design

2. The Community Bank: Generative Design

3. Wall Street: Capital Markets on Autopilot

4. Overload: The Expanding House of Claims

5. Collapse: The Eroding Middle-Class Base

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

6. Walking Up: From Maximizing Profits to Sustaining Life

7. The Island: From Growth to Sufficiency

8. Bringing Forth a World: From Individualism to Community

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

9. Living Purpose: Creating the Conditions for Life

10. Rooted Membership: Ownership in Living Hands

11. Mission-Controlled Governance: Humans at the Helm

12. Stakeholder Finance: Capital as Friend

13. Ethical Networks: Reinforcing Shared Values

Epilogue: Next

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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