Resources to learn more about common wealth
Below you’ll find a selection of materials by leading thinkers on common wealth: why we need it and how we could build it today to better steward earth’s resources for all.
The Commons & Unconditional Basic Income with Peter Barnes
Barnes is an entrepreneur, author, and originator of the “cap-and-dividend” model (also known as “Sky Trust”) that has influenced governments and policy experts around the world to rethink earth’s resources as a commons.
Read more: Peter Barnes: Protect Commons Assets through ‘Universal Property’
Guy Standing on The Plunder of the Commons
Dr. Standing is an economist, professor at the University of London, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, and a leading thinker on common wealth.
Read more: Plunder of the Commons by Standing
The Power of Land: Georgism 101
UK Youtuber BritMonkey released a 20-minute video on Land Value Tax and the ideas of Henry George. A great video to introduce someone to the topic.
A Citizens’ Wealth Fund - Explained with Carys Roberts
Roberts is Executive Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), UK’s progressive policy think tank.
Read more: Our Common Wealth: A Citizens' Wealth Fund for the UK
Floyd Marinescu on Andrew Yang’s Podcast
Floyd is co-founder and CEO of C4Media Inc., basic income advocate, and founder of Common Wealth.
Watch the full podcast episode here.
Common Wealth Dividends lightning talk with Brent Ranalli
Ranalli is a research scholar at the Ronin Institute, senior fellow at the Congressional Research Institute, public policy researcher at The Cadmus Group, Inc., and member of the IBM Network Science Research Center with over 20 years of experience as a policy professional.
Read more: Common Wealth Dividends: a new book about the wealth each of us is owed
More resources
Land-Value Taxation: Rethinking how Ontario cities tax to promote housing affordability and finance public transit — Mark Cameron, former PMO Senior Advisor
The Alaska Model: a citizen's income in practice — Professor Karl Widerquist, economist, philosopher and renowned basic income advocate
A citizen’s income and wealth fund for the UK: Lessons from Alaska — Angela Cummine, Oxford Fellow
The case for a land value tax is overwhelming — Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at Financial Times
Moore’s Law for Everything — Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Natural Common Wealth and Economic Rent in Canada
In this paper, we estimate the total economic rents (or unearned profits) from Canada’s land and natural resources that could be collected as new revenue, without inhibiting productive investment. At $241 billion/year, it could be enough to raise the 0% personal income tax bracket to $250,000/year or generate a dividend of $7,600/year per adult.
Common wealth for the common good.
Common Wealth is a project that promotes policies rooted in the idea that value arising from what nature or society creates, rather than individual effort, should be collected to benefit all citizens directly — through dividends and lower taxes.
Doing so would fix the incentives driving our housing and cost of living crises, while stewarding our resources for the benefit of future generations. The goal of this project is to expand our common wealth in order to create a society where progress benefits everyone.