This is a paper on workplace democracy and the corporate governance debate which was prepared for a 1998 conference at the Brookings Institution. For some reason, it was never published.
Corporate Democracy Movement
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This article argues for democratizing the corporation and is oriented towards an industrial relations / labor union audience.
Book review on plywood coops
December 9, 2012 by
This book on the plywood coops is written by an academic economist who is sympathetic to worker cooperatives, but just repeats the standard criticisms as if he were unaware of the solutions and counterarguments. Hence I wrote the review to once again point out the solutions and counterarguments.
Mondragon Business Planning with Labor as a Fixed Cost
December 8, 2012 by
This is an old 1984 study of the 286-paged business planning manual, Plan de Gestion Anual de la Empresa (Annual Management Plan for the Enterprise) of the Empresarial Division of the Caja Laboral Popular, the bank in the Mondragon system of cooperatives. The remarkable thing about the Mondragon method of business planning is that they started with the number of members working in the cooperative and then planned production and sales to keep them on the job during the year.
On Rawls and Nussbaum
December 8, 2012 by
This paper was delivered at a 2008 conference in Leuven on Martha Nussbaum’s book Frontiers of Justice. The paper was to be published in the conference proceedings, but somehow that never happened.
Four Enterprise Creation Schemes: Putting Jane Jacobs to Work
December 8, 2012 by
This note presents policy ideas about entrepreneurship and enterprise creation derived from or, at least, inspired by Jane Jacobs’ writings.
Zagreb Lecture Slides
December 7, 2012 by
These are the slides from a lecture given at the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Zagreb in September 2012.
Workplace: Forgotten Topic in Democratic Theory?
December 7, 2012 by
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
December 7, 2012 by
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?
December 7, 2012 by
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.