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With liberty and dividends for all : how to save our middle class when jobs don't pay enough / Peter Barnes ; editor, Elissa Rabellino ; cover design, Brad Foltz ; proofreader, Henri Bensussen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Peter, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle class--United States--Social conditions.
- Middle class.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Sustainable development--United States.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- 2014.
- San Francisco, California : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won't be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America's middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs-and deserves-a supplementary source of nonlabor income.To meet this need, Barnes proposes to give every American a share of the wealth we own together- starting with our air and financial infrastructure. These shares would pay dividends of several thousand dollars per year-money that wouldn't be welfare or wealth redistribution but legitimate property inco
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. A Simple Idea; 2. The Tragedy of Our Middle Class; 3. Fix the System, Not the Symptoms; 4. Extracted Rent; 5. Recycled Rent; 6. The Alaska Model; 7. Dividends for All; 8. Carbon Capping: A Cautionary Tale; 9. From Here to the Adjacent Possible; Join the Discussion; Appendix: The Dividend Potential of Co-owned Wealth; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781626562158
- 1626562156
- 9781626562165
- 1626562164
- OCLC:
- 882610778
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