Our Goal

Stark inequalities of power and reward scar our society. Too few have a stake and say in the wealth we create in common. We have a decade to rapidly and justly transform our economy in the face of climate crisis and environmental breakdown. In the face of these challenges, transformative ambition is the safest way forward.



Our goal is simple: the steady and irreversible replacement of today’s unequal, extractive economy with one where freedom, solidarity, and dignity are a universal inheritance.



Common Wealth designs ownership institutions for the new economy, institutions that are democratic by design, inclusive in action, and social in purpose. Systemic change will require a new architecture of ownership, from place-based approaches to strategies to democratise capital at scale, from the commons to cooperatives.

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We have transformed our economy twice in living memory; changes in ownership were at the heart of these transformations. Public ownership underpinned the post-war consensus, while privatisation was vital to its undoing. Today, democratic ownership can build an economy where we all have a stake and a say.



It’s time to own the future.

