January 14, 2022

Economics

Transitioning businesses to employee ownership has the potential to significantly reduce the overall wealth gap as well as the racial equity gap.

Photo by iStock/ljubaphoto

"For many years now, conventional solutions to income and wealth inequality—minimum wage, unions, progressive taxation, or guaranteed income—have failed to gain enough momentum to reverse the trend of greater and greater accumulation among the already well-off. What if we added a new approach, focusing on a primary source of wealth, business ownership, and how to transfer that wealth directly to the workers struggling today? A promising vanguard of institutional investors are doing just that, using their resources to support business transitions to employee ownership. If this nascent movement were to grow, it has the potential to significantly reduce the wealth gap overall as well as the racial equity gap." -  Marjorie Kelly & Karen Kahn

Article: The Case for Investing in Employee Ownership

No items found.

Economics

We don’t need to reinvent capitalism. We just need to practice it.

Article: It's Time to End Slash-and-Burn-Capitalism

Economics

Discrimination hurts just about everyone, not only its direct victims.

Economics

A just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally.

Economics

What would it take to go from proposals to a new economic system? Let's start with three assumptions.