The Danish EOT is an unworkable model for employee ownership and thus no solution for the growing problem of business succession. The failure of the model is analyzed in this paper.
Historical Copies of ICA Model By-Laws for a Worker Cooperative
December 23, 2025 by
These copies of the Industrial Cooperative Association (ICA) Model By-Laws go from an early version from the late 1970s to the mature version in the early 1980s. Also included are a report from the late 1980s on how to set up a democratic worker ownership trusts written for Zimbabwe plus a law journal article on the 1982 Massachusetts law on Employee Cooperative Corporations.
Property and Production
November 1, 2014 by
This is the 30th anniversary of the publication of this paper, Property and Production, which laid out the whole property-theoretic analysis of production. I would not change a word today.
Making Enterprises and Markets Responsible
March 26, 2013 by
This is a paper written to further Richard Cornuelle’s abiding vision of a more responsible economy and posted here to invite comment. The basic idea is revisit the whole idea of a market economy dominated by absentee-owned and publicly traded corporations (“Wall Street Capitalism”) that disconnect companies (“the Mother of all disconnects”) from the natural desires of the people working in the companies to improve their communities.