Land by Martin Adams

Land by Martin Adams

What if we lived in a world where everyone had enough? A world where everyone mattered and where people lived in harmony with nature? What if the solution to our economic, social, and ecological problems was right underneath our feet? Land has been sought after throughout human history. Even today, people struggle to get onto the property ladder and view real estate as an important way to build wealth. Yet, as the reader will discover through this book, the act of owning land-and our urge to profit from it-causes economic booms and busts, social and cultural decline, and environmental devastation.Land- A New Paradigm for a Thriving Worldintroduces a radically new economic model that ensures a more fair and abundant reality for everyone. It is a book for those who dream of a better world, for themselves and future generations.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I- The Cost of Ignorance
1. The Production of Wealth
2. The Value of Location
3. The Free Market
4. Social Decline
5. Business Recessions
6. Ecocide
7. Earth, Our Home

Part II- A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
8. Restoring Communities
9. Keep What You Earn, Pay for What You Use
10. Local Autonomy
11. Affordable Housing
12. Thriving Cities
13. Sustainable Farming
14. The Price of Peace
15. A New Paradigm

Epilogue- A Personal Note
Appendix- The Math Behind the Science
References & Suggestions for Further Reading
Endnotes
Index

MARTIN ADAMS is a community organizer, social innovator, and systems theorist. It hurt him as a child to watch most people struggling while a few lived in luxury. This sparked a lifelong desire in him to work with others to create a more just and sustainable world. He strolled right past Wall Street as a young adult, trained for a career in finance, and instead opted to devote his life to community development. He experienced directly how our economic system produces human and environmental conflict through his non-profit activity.

As a result, Adams has dedicated his life to bringing forth a new economic paradigm that allows people to coexist with environment. Land: A New Paradigm for a Healthy Planet is the culmination of his years of research into this economic paradigm, and it serves as a call to action for changemakers all throughout the world.

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ISBN 13	9781583949207
ISBN 10	1583949208
Title	Land
Author	Martin Adams
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Year published	2015-03-03
Number of pages	208
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