The Ownership Solution Toward A Shared Capitalism For The 21st Century

by Gates, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780738201313
• ISBN10: 0738201316
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-23
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Capitalism now reigns triumphantbut in the process has created dramatic inequalities of wealth and left many individuals feeling disconnected. Backed by enthusiastic support from a wide array of legislators, corporate leaders, Nobel laureates, environmentalists, and social and political activists,The Ownership Solutionshows how to humanize and localize free enterprise by using ownership as a means for engaging more people in its design.

Author Biography

Jeff Gates is a lawyer, investment banker, political advisor, and consultant to government, union, and industry leaders worldwide. As counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance during the 1980s he was a leading fiture of the federal legislation encouraging employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction and Overview	xix
SECTION 1 Why Capitalism Creates So Few Capitalists	1	(112)
Disconnected Capitalism	2	(14)
Reconstructing Capitalism	16	(6)
Why Does Capitalism Create So Few Capitalists?	22	(12)
Putting the ``Own'' Back in Ownership	34	(16)
Up-Close Capitalism--The Employee Ownership Solution	50	(18)
New Property Paradigms	68	(11)
Toward a Workable Work Ethic	79	(19)
Reinventing Labor Unions	98	(15)
SECTION 2 A Capitalism That Works for Everyone	113	(64)
Making Money	116	(11)
Capitalism as if Our Children Mattered	127	(18)
Community Without the Communism	145	(19)
The Politics of Ownership	164	(13)
SECTION 3 Toward a Twenty-First-Century Capitalism	177	(44)
Reinventing Capitalism	180	(5)
Reengineering Capitalism for Inclusion	185	(28)
Creating a Capitalism That Creates More Capitalists	213	(8)
SECTION 4 Copying with Global Capitalism	221	(69)
The Development Dilemma	227	(14)
Reinventing Capitalism in Europe	241	(15)
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics	256	(12)
Latin America, the Caribbean and the Catholic Church	268	(7)
South Africa: Overcoming Economic Apartheid	275	(6)
Islamic Ownership: The Vice-Regents	281	(9)
Epilogue	290	(10)
Appendix A Making Assets Accountable	300	(10)
Appendix B Dissecting Modern Ownership	310	(5)
Appendix C Core Ingredients in Any Ownership Solution	315	(6)
Appendix D GDP--What Gets Measured Gets Managed	321	(4)
Notes	325	(55)
Index	380