The Common Wealth Blog
Articles on building the commons and sharing the value arising from our natural and co-created wealth.
The Alaska Model: a citizen's income in practice
The idea of a basic income for all citizens is often seen as a utopian dream. But 'the Alaska Dividend' has existed for more than thirty years, and is immensely popular to this day.
Petro Canada - Oil Common Wealth Lost
People often look with envy and awe at the accumulated financial resources from natural wealth in places like Norway, Alaska or Gulf oil states. Many public goods are provided to citizens of these nations and jurisdictions, because governments capture the economic rents…
A citizen’s income and wealth fund for the UK: Lessons from Alaska
The idea of a basic income for all citizens is often seen as a utopian dream. But 'the Alaska Dividend' has existed for more than thirty years, and is immensely popular to this day.
Citizen ownership: the lost radicalism of the centre?
As wages stall or decline new methods must be found of creating a fair and democratic economy. Key to this must be a shift from redistributing income to redistributing assets…
Sovereign Wealth Funds: can they be community funds?
The idea that governments should invest some of their wealth for public benefit has moved from utopian dream to part-reality with the advent of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). But are these SWFs really democratic entities?
Common wealth for the common good.
Common Wealth is a project that promotes policies rooted in the idea that value arising from what nature or society creates, rather than individual effort, should be collected to benefit all citizens directly — through dividends and lower taxes.
Doing so would fix the incentives driving our housing and cost of living crises, while stewarding our resources for the benefit of future generations. The goal of this project is to expand our common wealth in order to create a society where progress benefits everyone.