"The Power of Ownership Part 1: The Ben and Jerry's Trap"
In the early 2000's Ben and Jerry's (the ice cream manufacturer) was acquired by UniLever. In 2010 Ben Cohen (one of its co-founders)...
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Re-thinking Economics, Ownership and How We Do Business
So much of what we experience at the personal and social level is a result of systems. Systems we have inherited, and which have remained largely unquestioned until fairly recently. This blog aims to provoke questions and inspire answers by providing curated content, alongside some of my own reflections.
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A Primer On The Why and How of Employee Ownership
An easy to read set of slides explaining why employee ownership is so important, and briefly discussing two prevalent forms.
The Paradox of a Distributist Economy and an Introduction to Employee Ownership
To understand the genius of distributism, one must embrace the idea of a paradox and recognize that paradox is possible and necessary
Fifty by Fifty - On the front lines of employee ownership
Fifty by Fifty, a U.S. based organization seeks to scale up employee based ownership by creating awareness of this ownership model,...
Could Coronavirus Cure Capitalism - By Denise Hearn
This article serves as a great primer for beginning to understand some of the greatest challenges associated with Capitalism in 2020. ...
Yanis Varoufakis on how Democracy is under threat from Capitalism
Former Greece Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' talk below explains how the centralization of wealth through Capitalism has rapidly come...
