CONTENTS
I The Overbuilt House of Claims
Extractive Ownership as the Cause of Financial Collapse
ONE Debt, Inc.: Extractive Design
TWO The Community Bank: Generative Design
THREE Wall Street: Capital Markets on Autopilot
FOUR Overload: The Expanding House of Claims
FIVE Collapse: The Eroding Middle-Class Base
II Returning to Earth
Ecological Values as the Seedbed of a Generative Economy
SIX Waking Up: From Maximizing Profits to Sustaining Life
SEVEN The Island: From Growth to Sufficiency
EIGHT Bringing Forth a World: From Individualism to Community
III Creating Living Companies
The Five Core Elements of Generative Ownership Design
NINE Living Purpose: Creating the Conditions for Life
TEN Rooted Membership: Ownership in Living Hands
ELEVEN Mission-Controlled Governance: Humans at the Helm
TWELVE Stakeholder Finance: Capital as Friend