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In the following introduction and an excerpt from his book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (New York: Hill and Wang, 2017), Steven Stoll offers a "thought experiment"—the Commons Communities Act—to provoke public policy discussion with the aim of redressing the consequences of generations of corporate land grabbing in the southern mountains. RAMP HOLLOW: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll, published by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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