Building the New Economy: Distributive Capitalism
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“Building the New Economy” introduces a successor to Capitalism. A system with an explicit mandate of distributed wealth and ownership that theauthor terms “Distributive Capitalism”. Harlley takes a multi-dimensional view of the potential comparative advantages of a distributed system,covering areas as diverse as political grid-lock, macro-economic risk and economic justice, while always anchoring his arguments for “DistributiveCapitalism” to the goal of human happiness and flourishing.
The book is an accessible presentation that allows readers with a moderate understandingof economics to grasp the concepts at play, and the potential of Distributive Capitalism as an alternative system, emphasizing highly distributed capitalownership.
David Harlley is co-founder and CEO of ThirdWay Capital International, an impact-focused venture capital firm operating in Sub-Saharan Africa. He isalso an award-winning adjunct lecturer at IE University, Madrid, Spain, where he teaches the subject of Distributive Capitalism.
David has always beenfascinated by the themes of vocation, and passion. This led him on a journey to discover how the marketplace provides or denies people theopportunity to experience these two essential facets of human life. One of his core beliefs is that only an economy owned by its participants willfunction in their interests. If only for this reason, expansion of business ownership to the worker becomes an imperative for human flourishing. Afteryears of study however, he believes that distributed ownership holds the potential to address a host of other problems that we identify with late-stagecapitalism, including wealth inequality and social breakdown, ecological degradation and macro-economic risk. In short, Distributive Capitalism is acomplete vision for Capitalism, that represents a major step towards a world that works for all.