Contribution creates a claim
People who participate in producing economic or social value should have their contributions recognized when claims are assigned.
Equity Democracy
Distribution at creation.
Before asking how value should be redistributed, Equity Democracy asks who participated in creating it, whose contribution was attributed, and who received the resulting claim.
Attribution comes first
Political economy should not begin only after ownership has already been allocated.
Ownership is institutional design
Ownership determines control, income, agency, and the legitimacy of systems people sustain.
Agency is the democratic test
Institutions should expand people's consequential ability to shape the systems affecting their lives.