Chapter 1: Introduction: What Are Common Wealth Dividends (CWDs)? -- Chapter 2:. Thomas Paine and the Perennial Problem of Land Reform -- Chapter 3: CWDs as Applied to Natural Resources -- Chapter 4: CWD as Applied to Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 5: Common Wealth Dividends in Theory and Practice.

Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink. Thomas Paine's 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice and Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend are staples in the literature on Basic Income,...

The starting point consists in considering city as common good as a whole characterized by a number of physical and social local resources that are not reproducible ones. Remembering that the mission of the modern town planners, from the Athena Chart 1931, is the wellbeing of the inhabitants....