ABSTRACT
To avoid the unsustainable outcomes described in the previous chapter requires moving to a system in which economic activity would be conducted by firms other than the public corporation. For reasons that we explore in this chapter, workers and beneficiaries, and, in some specific circumstances, external shareholders of private, non-listed companies, have the potential, as company owners, to support the background conditions required for activities and operations for resource use reduction, resilience and viability at a steady scale. This is no guarantee they will do so; this chapter is about the possibilities created by different types of company ownership.
