Projected Reach of Commons Enterprises in the United States
Reference code: C25-12 Recent data from the Federal Reserve and related analyses show just how concentrated wealth has become in the United States. The Federal Reserve’s Distributional Financial Accounts, summarized in a June 2025 article from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, report that the top 10 percent of households hold about 67.2 percent […]
Apologia
APOLOGIA Commons Capitalism and the Return of the Commons I did not begin Commons Capitalism by trying to design a new economic theory. I began with workers. A society cannot be well if the people who do its ordinary work are not well. After years of research and reflection, I came to see societal well-being […]
Scaling Shared Wealth Through a Commons Capitalism Entity
Reference code: C25-06 Executive Summary A purpose-built commons capitalism entity that centralizes surplus, holds subsidiaries, and pursues acquisitions delivers distinct economic advantages over a typical worker cooperative in three interlocking ways. First, the legal and financial design of a parent commons capitalism entity enables deliberate, rapid expansion by acquiring existing firms and folding them into […]
Commons Capitalism Entities and Workers’ Cooperatives: Working Together for a Better Society
Reference code: C25-01 Economist Richard Wolff has proposed replacing traditional corporations with workers’ cooperatives (“coops” for short). More specifically, he advocates for Workers’ Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs). These organizations aim to distribute wealth, particularly net profits, across a broader economic class of worker-owners, thereby reducing the concentration of capital among a small group of individuals. These […]
Origin
ORIGIN Origin of Commons Capitalism I first developed the idea of a business organization (later called a commons capitalism entity or CCE), while trying to envision a “better mousetrap” than capitalism. The foundation question was, “How could a company hold the means of production and distribute net profits to workers as higher wages and social […]