Peter Barnes (entrepreneur)

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Peter Barnes (born April 16, 1940 in New York City ) is an American author and entrepreneur .

Life

Peter Barnes studied history at Harvard University (BA 1962), then constitutional law (government) at Georgetown University (MA 1966). After spending his first 26 years on the American east coast, he has lived on the west coast since 1968. He is the initiator of the California Sky Trust initiative and founder of the California telephone company Working Assets and other companies. Peter Barnes was an official participant in the international climate congress KyotoPlus - Ways out of the climate trap. He is a Senior Fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute , California.

Peter Barnes lives in San Francisco , California with his two sons Zak and Eli Barnes .

Think

Peter Barnes names the central problem of the system in which we live, abundance capitalism , "which knows no limits". His thesis is: The current " capitalism 2.0" not only destroys nature and increases inequality, it also makes us unhappy ”. He therefore regards it as a sick system that suffers from "incurable devotion to the principle of profit maximization ". Furthermore, the system of "capitalist" democracy is based on the naive idea that the state promotes the "common good ". In terms of eliminating current deficiencies, Peter Barnes outlines the vision of a better "Capitalism 3.0", which he understands as the new " operating system " for the entire economy.

Works

  • Peter Barnes: Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Common Good ; ed. from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. - Hamburg: VSA, 2008 - ISBN 978-3-89965-312-0 - freely available as a PDF file (see web links)
  • Peter Barnes: Capitalism 3.0: a guide to reclaiming the commons - San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2006 - ISBN 978-1-57675-361-3 - freely available as a PDF file (see web links)
  • Peter Barnes: Who owns the sky? - our common assets and the future of capitalism. - Washington, DC: Island Press , 2001, ISBN 1-55963-855-9
  • Peter Barnes: Climate Solutions: A Citizen's Guide ; Chelsea Green Publishing 2008,
  • Peter Barnes: The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management , John Wiley & Sons Ltd 1999, ISBN 978-0471986225

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Peter Barnes on Amazon
  2. ↑ a b skybook.org
  3. ↑ a b Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy GmbH et al .: Press release Making climate policy a top priority , Wuppertal, September 28, 2006
  4. ^ Tomales Bay Institute
  5. ^ P. Barnes, Capitalism 3.0 (see works), page 19
  6. ^ P. Barnes, Capitalism 3.0 (see works), page 186
  7. ^ P. Barnes, Capitalism 3.0 (see works), page 75
  8. ↑ Capitalism 3.0 under discussion
  9. ↑ FAQ on capitalism 3.0 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / capitalism3.com

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Wikiquote: Peter Barnes  - Quotes
personal data
SURNAME Barnes, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City