Who owns the sky? : our common assets and the future of capitalism

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Author:

Barnes, Peter, 1942-

ISBN:

9781559638548

Personal Author:

Barnes, Peter, 1942-

Publication Information:

Washington, DC : ISLAND PRESS, c2000.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

Winds of change -- The sky is filling! -- Who owns the sky? -- How a sky trust would work -- Photo album -- Thought experiments for economists -- The new commons -- Capitalism 2.0.

Subject Term:

Air quality management -- Economic aspects -- United States.

Space debris -- Economic aspects -- United States.

Airspace (Law) -- United States.

Climatic changes -- Government policy -- United States.

Global environmental change -- Government policy -- United States.

Capitalism -- United States.

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One way or another, global warming will force us to put a price on the deposition of carbon in the atmosphere. This work offers a proposition for a new market institution that will equitably distribute the pain and benefits of a price on carbon. It proposes an institution known as the Sky Trust, the fundamental premise of which is that the price paid for carbon emission ought to be paid to the owners of the atmosphere - all of us, who own it collectively as a commons. The author then examines the extent to which such an institution could be designed to conserve and distribute the benefits of other commons to which we are all heir.

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