<DIV><P>The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US. As the environmental limits and socially destructive tendencies of the current profit-driven economic model become daily more self-evident, there is a growing demand for a fairer economic alternative, as evidenced by the mounting campaigns against global finance and the politics of austerity. <B><B>Reclaiming Public Ownership tackles these issues head on, going beyond traditional leftist arguments, to present a radical new conception of public ownership. Framed around economic democracy and public participation in economic decision-making, Cumbers argues that a reconstituted public ownership is central to the creation of a more just and sustainable society.<B><B>A timely reconsideration of a longstanding but essential topic.</P></DIV>