Slovene Privatization ESOP

This 1991 paper, coauthored with Uros Korze and Marco Simoneti, described the type of ESOP model in the Mencinger-Korze-Simoneti draft privatization legislation.

Management-Employee Buyouts in Privatization

This 1993 report for the Central and Eastern European Privatization Network was known for giving early and ultimately accurate criticism of the shock therapy and voucher privatization programs.

What is a worker cooperative

This is the late-70s ICA pamphlet that introduced people to worker cooperatives.

Socialization of Enterpreneurship at Mondragon

This 1982 paper published by the ICA was the basis for the Harvard Business School case study on Mondragon–with most of the material on socializing entrepreneurship taken out.

Property and Contract 1973

This 1973 unpublished typescript was probably the first time my settled views on property theory were put into writing.

Ellerman-Rota Mathematics Paper

This was my only math paper co-authored with Gian-Carlo Rota who in many respects was my mentor in mathematics. It reduced my Erdos number from infinity to 3.

Brain drain and development

This paper analyzes the literature on migration and development focusing on the skilled labor brain drain problem.

Critique of Microfinance

This was my first published critique of the microfinance development fad.

Property Appropriation and Theory of the Firm

This is the first of my papers published by Warren Samuels who became a great supporter of this property theoretic analysis.

Marxian Exploitation Theory

This 1983 paper in a philosophical journal analyzes the Marxian labor theory of value and exploitation as an incorrect and superficial theory.