FEB. 11, 2014 By: Thomas B. Edsall www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12 A passionate group of labor economists has taken up a cause championed 40 years ago by Senator Russell Long of Louisiana: to turn every worker into a capitalist. Long, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1966 to 1981, inherited a populist commitment from his father, […]
Inclusive Capitalism
Obama Should Push to Give Workers a Stake
Jan 20, 2015 7:30 AM EST By Peter R. Orszag Bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-20 Here’s a good idea that I’d like to see prominent in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight: shared capitalism. That is, stock-ownership plans or simple profit-sharing schemes for corporate employees. These plans have been shown to effectively align workers’ incentives with those […]
ESOPs Take the Oxymoron Out of “Inclusive Capitalism”
January 29, 2015/in ESOP, Law /by ESOP Plus Staff ESOPs Take the Oxymoron Out of “Inclusive Capitalism” In a January 20, 2015, op-Ed piece in the New York Times, “Can Capitalists Save Capitalism”, Thomas Edsall reports that key Democrats have reached agreement on a set of policies known as “inclusive capitalism” that would reduce wealth […]
John Menke – President & CEO – Menke & Associates, Inc.
In my view, THE 3rd WAY may potentially do more to change society for the better than any other book ever published. As we know from the Piketty book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” and from hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles over the past twelve months, income inequality and wealth concentration has reached epic […]