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The Case for Community Wealth Building

By:Joe Guinan; Martin O'Neill
Publisher:Polity
Print ISBN:9781509539024
eText ISBN:9781509539048
Edition:1
Copyright:2020
Format:Reflowable

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Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? 

Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill argue for an approach that uses the power of democratic participation to drive equitable development and ensure that wealth is widely shared. They show how this model - Community Wealth Building - can transform our economic system by creating a web of collaborative institutions, from worker cooperatives to community land trusts and public banks, that empower and enrich the many, not the few.

This book is essential reading for everyone interested in building more equal, inclusive, and democratic societies.