Featured | Democratic Firms
The “Ownership of the Firm” is a Myth (1975)
This paper was originally published in a journal: Ellerman, David. 1975. “The ‘Ownership of the Firm’ Is a Myth.” Administration and Society 7 (1 May): 27–42, and then we immediately reprinted in a collection of essays: Ellerman, David. 1975. “The ‘Ownership of the Firm’ Is a Myth.” In Organizational Democracy : Participation and Self-Management, edited by David Garson and Michael P. Smith. Beverly Hills CA: Sage Publications.
Towards Abolishing the Renting of Persons
This paper is a write-up of a speech given in 2017 at a centennial ‘celebration’ of the 1917 Russian Revolution at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
Featured | Development
Comments on Universal Basic Income
This is a draft paper called “UBI: A Bad Idea Whose Time has Come?”. The income supplements supplied due to the coronavirus pandemic have put the UBI back on the policy agenda, so it is appropriate to re-examine the idea. Click here to download the paper.
Worker Ownership and the Current Crisis
There are so many crises these days (coronavirus, global warming) that this paper seems already out of date since we are referring to the crisis caused by the neoliberal post-socialist transition policies in East Europe and elsewhere in the post-socialist world.
Featured | Property Theory
The “Ownership of the Firm” is a Myth (1975)
This paper was originally published in a journal: Ellerman, David. 1975. “The ‘Ownership of the Firm’ Is a Myth.” Administration and Society 7 (1 May): 27–42, and then we immediately reprinted in a collection of essays: Ellerman, David. 1975. “The ‘Ownership of the Firm’ Is a Myth.” In Organizational Democracy : Participation and Self-Management, edited by David Garson and Michael P. Smith. Beverly Hills CA: Sage Publications.
Towards Abolishing the Renting of Persons
This paper is a write-up of a speech given in 2017 at a centennial ‘celebration’ of the 1917 Russian Revolution at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
Featured | Quantum Mechanics
Abstraction in Math and Indefiniteness in QM
The paper is published as: Ellerman, D. (2021). On Abstraction in Mathematics and Indefiniteness in Quantum Mechanics. Journal of Philosophical Logic. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-020-09586-1
Probability Theory with Superposition Events
In finite probability theory, events are subsets S⊆U of the outcome set. Subsets can be represented by 1-dimensional column vectors. By extending the representation of events to two dimensional matrices, we can introduce “superposition events.”
Featured | Mathematics
Abstraction in Math and Indefiniteness in QM
The paper is published as: Ellerman, D. (2021). On Abstraction in Mathematics and Indefiniteness in Quantum Mechanics. Journal of Philosophical Logic. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-020-09586-1
The Logical Theory of Canonical Maps
The purpose of this paper is to show that the dual notions of elements & distinctions are the basic analytical concepts needed to unpack and analyze morphisms, duality, and universal constructions in the Sets, the category of sets and functions.
