The Curiosity of Immigrant Ownership in the United States
What explains this pattern of immigrant owned businesses? It is that ownership is vested not in the individual so much as the family.
Communism: the Theory
The principle of Communism is that public authority shall not protect the property of any man when it is used for production, distribution, or exchange.
The Citizen's Share
In The Citizen’s Share, authors Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, and Douglas L. Kruse present a compelling case for “broad-based capitalism.”
The Myth of Ownership
Not only do the laws of capitalism facilitate the separation of ownership from work, they also seem to separate ownership from the rights of ownership.
Economic Participation
More ownership is rarely explored today because we have accepted the separation of ownership and work as the gold standard of economic progress.
On Writing In Dark Times
We are not primarily writing and reading and publishing to “fix” the City of Man.
What We Are Getting At
We know very plainly what we want, and we know in general how to get it, as soon as we have the power—that is, the numbers—to demand it.
A Modest Proposal
Chiefly, citizen-led development and locally-owned small businesses are the bedrock of the tax base and the backbone of a stable, healthy community and economy.