Owning Our Future

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Foreword
7. Prologue: The Journey Ahead
8. I The Overbuilt House of Claims Extractive Ownership as the Cause of Financial Collapse
   1. One Debt, Inc.: Extractive Design
   2. Two The Community Bank: Generative Design
   3. Three Wall Street: Capital Markets on Autopilot
   4. Four Overload: The Expanding House of Claims
   5. Five Collapse: The Eroding Middle-Class Base
9. II Returning to Earth Ecological Values as the Seedbed of a Generative Economy
   1. Six Waking Up: From Maximizing Profits to Sustaining Life
   2. Seven The Island: From Growth to Sufficiency
   3. Eight Bringing Forth a World: From Individualism to Community
10. III Creating Living Companies The Five Core Elements of Generative Ownership Design
    1. Nine Living Purpose: Creating the Conditions for Life
    2. Ten Rooted Membership: Ownership in Living Hands
    3. Eleven Mission-Controlled Governance: Humans at the Helm
    4. Twelve Stakeholder Finance: Capital as Friend
    5. Thirteen Ethical Networks: Reinforcing Shared Values
11. Epilogue: Next
12. Notes
13. Acknowledgments
14. Index
15. About the Author
16. Footnotes
    1. Chapter 1
       1. Fn1
    2. Chapter 5
       1. Fn2
    3. Chapter 10
       1. Fn3