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“Lucid and persuasive.”

Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and former US Secretary of Labor

“We are in a transformative crisis, when bold ideas suddenly seem obvious. Whether on the political right or left, thoughtful people should support the core idea of this exciting book – a trust fund for providing everybody with basic income security.”

Guy Standing, SOAS University of London

“Ours offers an elegant, market-based solution to inequality that is hiding in plain sight. It’s not subsidies or tax credits, just smart and fair management of wealth we inherit together. Thomas Paine pointed the way two centuries ago; Peter Barnes shows how to do it today.”

Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies, author of The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions

“Twenty years ago Peter Barnes asked Who Owns the Sky? and his answer inspired a new way of addressing the ownership of common assets. Now, by tackling head-on the inadequacy of present property rights, he is more comprehensive and just as inspiring. Both concrete and visionary, Ours points the way to a market economy that automatically generates income for everyone and simultaneously curtails its destruction of nature.”

David Morris, founder, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

“This long-awaited book is a distillation of wise thinking over decades. Barnes shows how unconstrained use of common assets leads inexorably to wide discrepancies in human wealth and degradation of the natural world. His carefully detailed solution is a new form of universal property, neither public nor private, to be held in trust for the benefit of all living beings in this and future generations.”

Susan Witt, Executive Director, Schumacher Center for a New Economics