A simple solution – various blurbs

A simple solution to rising inequality

Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain a large middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs a supplementary source of nonlabor income.

To meet this need, Barnes proposes togive every American a share of wealth we own together—our air, financial infrastructure, and more. These shares would pay dividends of several thousand dollars per year—money that wouldn’t be welfare or wealth redistribution, but legitimate property income.

“Every individual is born with legitimate claims on natural property, of its equivalent.” Tom Paine

Peter Barnes takes the national discussion on inequality to a new and important level. Enormously thoughtful, insightful, and valuable.

— Robert B. Reich, former US Secretary of Labor

Peter Barnes offers a market-based way to support our lower and middle classes while protecting our planet at the same time. Anyone tired of Wash­ington’s stale political clichés should read this book.

—Van Jones, author, Rebuilding the Dream

Peter Barnes’ solution to the decline of our middle class is so left-wing that Sarah Palin has championed a version of it in Alaska.

—Timothy Noah, author, The Great Divergence

When you apply a brilliant business mind like Peter’s to the common good, you get great ideas like this one: dividends from wealth we own together. Let’s do it.

—Marjorie Kelly, author, Owning Our Future

While Thomas Piketty proposes to tax private wealth, Peter Barnes’ vision is to pay everyone dividends from wealth we own in common. Both approaches should be taken very seriously.

—James Boyce, professor of economics, University of Massachusetts

Writing from a free-market perspective, I have long been con­cerned about the radical transformation that is occurring in our society. With this book, Peter Barnes shows how a system of universal divi­dends can simultaneously under­gird a broad middle class and make possible a thriving market economy.

—Dwight Murphey, author, A Shared Market Economy

In the last three decades, the wealthy have received most of the benefits of economic growth, with typical workers seeing little or no gains. Barnes’ pro­posal to reverse this process with an equal distribution of income from co-owned wealth is worth serious consideration.

—Dean Baker, author, The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive

If you’re concerned about ever-growing inequality, you must read this book. It brings light to where there’s only been heat, and points us toward a solution that will work for all.

—Richard Parker, author, The Myth of the Middle Class

I loved this book. It is clear, fast-paced, and offers a breathtakingly logical solution to widening inequality and ecological degradation.

—Susan Witt, executive director, Schumacher Center for a New Economics

It takes wisdom to transcend seemingly irreconcilable tensions around inequal­ity. Peter Barnes’ simple idea is grounded in such wisdom.

— John Fullerton, president, Capital Institute

Elegant, powerful, pragmatic and hopeful. This book will change the debate about what’s mine and what’s ours.

— David Morris, co-founder, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

In this unprecedented time, Peter Barnes’ splash of common sense is just what’s needed to spark a movement.

—    Frances Moore Lappé, author, Democracy’s Edge

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