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What is ownership and who are the owners?
Boomerang tax incentive to localise ownership by Shann Turnbull
A boomerang ownership tax system to buy back the farm and fund welfare. To read the paper in full, please click here.
The Co-operative Land Bank, by Mike Lewis and Dr. Shann Turnbull
A Solution in Search of a Home
To read the paper in full, please click here.
Ownership, entrepreneurship and business
Inefficiencies and Inequities of Capitalism - And how they can be reduced by Shann Turnbull
Perpetual property rights to land, structures, corporations and money allows investors to be overpaid to create inefficiencies and inequities in a way not measured by accountants and little noticed by economists. All intellectual property rights have limited life. Most assets depreciate over time except modern forms of stable money, collectables and land in developing urban areas. Private ownership of urban land creates inequities and inefficiencies from the windfall gains generated by external investment from either the private and/or private sectors. The Old Testament describes limited life land tenure that today could be used to make urban development self-financing, efficient and equitable.
To read the document in full, please click here.
Ownership, the state & the public sector
Ownership & place: global & regional contexts
Affordable housing policy: Not identifiable with orthodox economic analysis by Shann Turnbull
Orthodox economic analysis cannot identify how to provide affordable housing on a sustainable basis. This paper recommends that approval for public infrastructure expenditure and/or development be made conditional upon adopting duplex ownership of urban realty.
To read the paper in full, please click here.
What's happening
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6 September 2011
Party conferences 2011
The Commission on Ownership will hold fringe events at each of the three main party conferences this year. To find out more, please see below. Liberal Democrat Hall 6b, ICC, Monday 19 September, 18:15-19:30 Ed Davey MP Will Hutton Peter Marks Su...
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29 December 2010
Will Hutton: We have the oddest and most regressive constitution for private ownership anywhere in western capitalism
Below is an article from the Observer written by our Chair, will Hutton, about the state of contemporary British capitalism and the Commission. The original article can be read here. Heathrow's chaos is indicative of a wider national ma...
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February
Upcoming Events
The Commission on Ownership will be holding fringe meetings at each of the three main party conferences this year. See below for more details.
Liberal Democrat
Hall 6b, ICC, Monday 19 September, 18:15-19:30Ed Davey MP
Will Hutton, Chair
Peter Marks, Chief Executive, The Co-operative Group
Sue Slipman, Foundation Trust Network
Peter Hunt, Chief Executive, Mutuo
Labour
Concourse Fringe Room 9, ACC Liverpool, Sunday 25 September, 13:00-15:00Tessa Jowell MP
Oliver Nyumbu, Chief Executive, Caret
Peter Marks, Chief Executive, The Co-operative Group
Sue Slipman, Foundation Trust Network
Peter Hunt, Chief Executive, Mutuo
Conservative
Royce Suite, The Midland Hotel, Monday 3 October, 12:30-14:00Andrew Jones MP (PPS to Business and Enterprise Minister, Mark Prisk)
Will Hutton, Chair
Peter Marks, Chief Executive, The Co-operative Group
Sue Slipman, Foundation Trust Network
Peter Hunt, Chief Executive, Mutuo
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