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Joe Guinan. The Case for Community Wealth Building
CONTENTS
Guide
List of Tables
Pages
The Case For series
The Case for Community Wealth Building
Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Economic Change, Starting at the Local Level
1 What Is Community Wealth Building?
Two Models of Community Wealth Building: Cleveland and Preston
Origins of Community Wealth Building: A Response to Crisis and Pain
The Emerging Mosaic: Elements of the Democratic Economy
A New Institutional Settlement?
Notes
2 Taking Control: Arguing for Community Wealth Building
Justifying Community Wealth Building
Political Values and Public Control
Extending Democracy
A Society of Equals
Equality and Democracy in Local Economies
Responding to Critiques of Community Wealth Building
On Prisoner’s Dilemmas, Zero-Sum Games, and ‘Municipal Protectionism’
Rent Extraction, Capture by Special Interests, and the Alleged Impossibility of Democracy
Too Many Meetings? ‘The Problem With Socialism is That it Takes Too Many Evenings’
Conclusion: Building Democratic and Egalitarian Local Economies
Notes
3 Community Wealth Building and the Institutional Turn: Routes to a Democratic Economy
Principles of a Democratic Economy: The Need for Systemic Change
Returns to Capital
Moving to Large-Order Change
Labour’s Institutional Turn
Notes
Further Reading and Resources for Action
Index. A
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‘A new approach to economics is needed to tackle grotesque inequalities of wealth and power. Community Wealth Building offers a way for communities to confront corporate power and build a more equal and democratic economy. In this book Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill show what inspiring action is already happening on the ground and point beyond to what is possible.’
Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of the Labour Party
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Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors of The Spirit Level and The Inner Level
‘The Case for Community Wealth Building is an essential guide to a new and devolved economic movement that challenges forty years of neoliberalism and austerity. It articulates real progress towards a transformed and democratic economy.’
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