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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
In 2020, she co-founded Europe’s first nonprofit anti-monopoly think-tank, the Balanced Economy Project, to catalyse an international anti-monopoly movement. She holds economics and law degrees from Oxford and Georgetown, and practised antitrust/competition law at top law firms in London and Brussels, at regulators in the UK and US, and at the World Bank. Frequently sought after as keynote speaker, panellist, and podcast guest, she has delivered presentations for the Financial Times, the OECD, University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, and Oxford. Major media outlets feature her insights, including national television, radio, and leading publications such as the Guardian and Financial Times.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
In 2020, she co-founded Europe’s first nonprofit anti-monopoly think-tank, the Balanced Economy Project, to catalyse an international anti-monopoly movement. She holds economics and law degrees from Oxford and Georgetown, and practised antitrust/competition law at top law firms in London and Brussels, at regulators in the UK and US, and at the World Bank. Frequently sought after as keynote speaker, panellist, and podcast guest, she has delivered presentations for the Financial Times, the OECD, University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, and Oxford. Major media outlets feature her insights, including national television, radio, and leading publications such as the Guardian and Financial Times.
Author: Michelle Meagher
Genres: Non-fiction
Every generation has the right to reset property, so why don't we?
Generation Reset excavates an overlooked tradition running through millennia of law: private ownership was never meant to be permanent. From reverting bridge charters and expiring patents to term limits and time-limited copyright, reversion is already built into how societies work, and Michelle Meagher, a lawyer who spent years on the side of consolidating power before turning to interrogate it, argues that the same logic can and should apply to the biggest concentrations of wealth.
Structured as a journey through the doors of political and economic thought she has opened across her career, moving from how to reclaim political imagination through to releasing entrenched dominion and sounding a modern jubilee, the book shows there is a real legal mechanism at the heart of the argument: the ability to revert property to the commons without compensation, legally and democratically. It makes the case that our paralysis isn't a failure of ideas but a failure of permitted moves, and that democracy itself needs to be empowered for renewal so that it can repurpose the economy for the people. The argument arrives at a moment when democratic socialists in America and figures like Andy Burnham in the UK are already asking hard questions about ownership in everything from consumer debt to essential utilities and Big Tech.
For readers of Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland, Naomi Klein's Doppelganger, and Rutger Bregman's Utopia for Realists.