15pages
Appendix: Measuring Ownership Income
The full appendix, with its formulas and tables.
Open the Appendix (PDF, 15 pages)Labor Zero: Online Companion
AI, Automation, and the Last Employed Generation
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Appendix and Bibliography
82pages
Bibliography
The book’s complete bibliography.
Open the Bibliography (PDF, 82 pages)Front matter
The four graphics from the front of the book
Two facing pairs: the two systems, then the two pyramids.
“One provides the substance … and the other provides the teeth.”
The two systems
Facing pair 1 of 2
Today: the wage-based system
Before the Great Decoupling. Households earn by working.
Post-Labor: the capital-based system
After the Great Decoupling. Households earn by owning.
The two pyramids
Facing pair 2 of 2
The Pyramid of Prosperity
The five tiers of post-labor household income.
The Pyramid of Power
The five layers of a new social contract.
The PDFs have their fonts built in, so they are the ones to print and share. The SVG sources are for editing: they are set in Bebas Neue and Montserrat (both free from Google Fonts) and Palatino.
Further reading
Supplementary papers
161pages
Derived and Essential Demand
Human work, income distribution, and the Fourth Sector: what human work remains when machines can supply the functional result, and whether its earnings can support broad livelihoods.
Open the paper: Derived and Essential Demand (PDF, 161 pages)63pages
Post-Labor Household Income Interventions
A catalogue of 213 programs implemented or tested worldwide, from citizen dividends and asset accounts to worker ownership, guaranteed income, conditional and emergency cash, and public jobs.
Open the paper: Post-Labor Household Income Interventions (PDF, 63 pages)764pages
Post-Labor Economics Metrics Reference
A consolidated glossary of labor, capital, household and automation evidence, in 140 standalone metric chapters.
Open the paper: Post-Labor Economics Metrics Reference (PDF, 764 pages)
