Should more publicly traded companies have an ESOP, and should employee-ownership advocates spend time and resources figuring out ways to make that happen?
At first glance, the answer to both questions is, “Of course they ...
By Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Anderson’s remarkable book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It, published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. It’s headlined “communist dictatorships in our midst.” )
Imagine a government that assigns almost everyone a superior whom they must obey. Although superiors give most ...
Most of the economic-reform proposals you hear these days focus on redistribution, which mostly means taxing the rich and providing benefits to the poor. Redistribution is the traditional approach to redressing the ills of a market economy. It exists in ...
