Four Enterprise Creation Schemes: Putting Jane Jacobs to Work

This note presents policy ideas about entrepreneurship and enterprise creation derived from or, at least, inspired by Jane Jacobs’ writings.

Zagreb Lecture Slides

These are the slides from a lecture given at the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Zagreb in September 2012.

Workplace: Forgotten Topic in Democratic Theory?

This paper explores the theme of workplace democracy as promoting human development by looking particularly at John Stuart Mill and John Dewey.

Human Development in the Post-Socialist Transition

This paper in a philosophical journal looks at the post-socialist transition issues from the viewpoint of human development with special attention to teasing out some arguments from John Dewey.

Whither Self-Management?

This is the published version of my keynote speech at the 2004 conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation in Halifax Canada.

Die Gazette article (in German)

This is a translation into German, with very nice presentation and graphics, of my blog entry on Wall Street Capitalism.

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.

The Legitimate Opposition at Work

This paper addresses the need for some union-like legitimate opposition in a largely worker-owned company.