https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/owning-future-need-new-models-ownership/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=owning-future-need-new-models-ownership Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/owning-future-need-new-models-ownership/#comment-1513 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:31:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=3047#comment-1513 The American economist Henry George proposed over a century ago that we should move away from the concept of ownership as we are short-lived mortals. He proposed a new arrangement along the lines of stake-holding. In those days there were gold rushes in California, Yukon and Australia and the right to mine the ground was controlled by stake-holding. You went to the local town, registered the plot you wished to excavate and it was yours as long as you continued to occupy it.

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