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.
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.
Property and Contract 1973
December 7, 2012 by
This 1973 unpublished typescript was probably the first time my settled views on property theory were put into writing.
The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm
December 2, 2012 by
My second book was the 1989 The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm. The book was revised for the Chinese translation, and that is the version that can be downloaded here. This book develops the labor theory of property and democratic theory arguments for a democratic firm, and analyzes the connection between those principles and the legal structure of the firms.
Employment Contract and Liberal Thought
November 17, 2012 by
This was the first of several papers that focused on the employment contract and inalienable rights, rather than on the labor theory of property.
Introduction to Normative Property Theory
November 16, 2012 by
This was my first (1972) publication in property theory. The normative part of the theory is essentially the same as what I would espouse today, but for the descriptive theory, I was still in the grip of the “fundamental myth” that the rights to the product are part and parcel of some existing property rights to some capital asset.