For the past twenty years, Asia has been regarded as aneconomic success story. The recent economic turmoil in theregion, however, has prompted a reevaluation of the longtermsustainability of the dynamic economic performance.Undoubtedly, lessons will be drawn from the Asian experience—lessons...

Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker-managed firms. These differences are related to orthodox...