Review: Capitalism 3.0
A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
CAPITALISM 3.0
A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
Peter Barnes
216 pages (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2006)
Peter Barnes is calling for a fundamental change in the way our economy is structured. Our current version of capitalism (2.0) is failing to generate the environmental, social, and economic returns that are vital to our society. With a new approach, Barnes writes in Capitalism 3.0, we could simultaneously protect natural resources, reduce poverty, and make virtually...
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Read an excerpt from the book.
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