Week IX · 13 plates
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Micro Ownership Societies and Win-Win Policy

Places where it already works

The big idea

Venture capital and labor have cooperated for decades: founders and employees take equity, investors take risk, and when it works both sides are enriched. That is a micro Ownership Society, and it can be generalised.

By the end of this week you can
  • Describe how equity aligns investor and employee payoffs.
  • Compare ESOPs, options and profit sharing as mechanisms.
  • Map each policy proposal to one of Nowak's five rules.
Lecture hall · Week IX

Micro Ownership Societies and Win-Win Policy

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Plate 01

The startup already solved the capital-labor dilemma.

Investors put in capital, employees put in labor, and both hold the same instrument. Nobody has to be persuaded to care about the company's future — the payoff structure does it.

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Reading notes · Week IX

What you took from the pages

Write your own notes once you have finished The Citizen's Share, then revisit them before class. Notes are private to your account and never seen by anyone else.