Building wealth from within

摘要

Over the course of the last decade, community wealth-building has blossomed from being a marginal sport, into a widely-adopted corrective to an economic model that has left too many people worse off, enriched the already wealthy few and propelled us further down the road to ecological disaster.But, while many people have heard about community wealth-building through its association with the much-feted Preston model, the wider provenance and history of the movement is less well known. Community wealth-building is an intentional reorganisation of the economy - and particularly local economies - to ensure communities have more ownership over the wealth that is being generated in their areas. It is about how we use the levers of the local state to change the nature of ownership within the economy so that there are more small-to-medium-size enterprises, more social enterprises, more co-operatives and more community businesses.