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    <p>Through employee stock-ownership plans (ESOPs), millions of Americans experience the benefits of being co-owners of their workplaces. But employment is only one kind of economic relationship that can be strengthened with co-ownership trusts. Louis Kelso, the inventor of the ESOP, also imagined other SOPs, including a consumer stock-ownership plan (CSOP). In an era when fixed employment may be in decline, perhaps the time is right to revisit the CSOP proposal.</p>

<p>This project explores the viability and prospects of CSOPs, especially in the emerging online economy.</p>

<p><em>Supported by a Louis Kelso Fellowship from Rutgers University’s <a href="https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing">Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing</a>.</em></p>


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       <a href="/medlab/2018/12/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy.html">Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy</a> / <span class="post-meta">Dec 6, 2018</span> - Introducing a research project on user-owned trusts
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