A wage-earners' investment fund would receive income from taxation use it to accumulate capital on behalf of wage-earners. The paper briefly surveys the various wage-earner fund proposals advanced in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s. It then analyses the arguments for and against wage-earner...

The paper briefly summarizes those arguments which explain the paucity of workers' cooperatives under capitalism in terms of their financing arrangements. The possibility is considered that a wage-earners' investment fund, of Scandinavian type, could act as an external funding agency for a...

The paper presents a model of reliability which captures the process by which reliability is actually determined more accurately than the conventional analysis. In contrast to that conventional analysis, which is based on the characteristics approach, the model of this paper defines reliability...