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Newsweek Hails Cap-and-Dividend as “Truly Transformative”

Originally published on Dec 28, 2008.

The latest issue of Newsweek champions Peter Barnes as one of “four thinkers whose philosophies seem to have captured the intellectual moment.”

In its special end-of-the-year/end-of-Bush-Era issue on “the Global Elite,” the newsweekly cites four ideas they view as “transformative.” In addition to On the Commons co-founder Peter Barnes’ commons-based solution to global warming, Cap-and-Dividend, Newsweek hails Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein, and genetics researcher Dr. George Church.

Earlier in September Peter Barnes testified to Congress…

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