Peter Barnes - Peter Barnes is the co-founder and former president of Working Assets Long Distance. In 1995, he was named Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California.
He is the author of Who Owns the Sky? and Pawns: The Plight of the Citizen-Soldier, and has written for Newsweek, the New Republic, the New York Times, and many other publications.
Peter Barnes talks about Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.
Working Assets Co-founder and successful journalist Peter Barnes details a revolutionary market-based approach to upgrading capitalism in Capitalism 3.0. He presents an original framework for the future that retains society's common heritage and unique cultural character by creating a we sector to counterbalance the current, corrosive me sector.
Peter Barnes is the co-founder and former president of Working Assets Long Distance. In 1995, he was named Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. He is the author of Who Owns the Sky? and Pawns: The Plight of the Citizen-Soldier, and has written for Newsweek, The New Republic, the New York Times, and many other publications.
Barnes introduction to "the commons" is eye-opening and surprisingly has nothing to do with a class reference. His proposal for a socially conscious capitalist system is revolutionary, and takes into account the good of business, people, and the environment.
There's another model of socially responsible capitalism that's been applied in the field of development economics, which readers here may be interested in.
The story begins with a paper for the Clinton re-election committee.