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title: User Trusts
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slug: user-trusts
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summary: Strategies for restructuring online platforms based on the ideas of Louis O. Kelso
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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.
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This project explores the viability and prospects of CSOPs, especially in the emerging online economy.
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*Supported by a Louis Kelso Fellowship from Rutgers University's [Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing](https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing).*
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