The commons – those creations of nature and society we inherit together and must preserve for our children – is under siege. Our current version of capitalism – the corporate, globalized version 2.0 – is rapidly squandering this heritage. Now, Peter Barnes offers a solution: protect the commons by giving it property rights and strong institutional managers. Barnes shows how capitalism – like a computer – is run by an operating system. Our current operating system gives too much power to profit-maximizing corporations that devour the commons and distribute most of their profits to a sliver of the population. And government – which in theory should defend the commons – is all too often a tool of those very corporations. Barnes proposes a revised operating system – Capitalism 3.0 – that protects the commons while preserving the many strengths of capitalism as we know it. His major innovation is the commons trust, a market based legal entity with the power to limit the use of scare展开