Many people know about Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) which, along with profit-sharing and pension plans, are treated as deferred compensation plans under Section 401 and related sections of the Internal Revenue Code. ESOPs have been established by thousands of American corporations,...

Socio-Economics is a multi-disciplinary, holistic approach to economics that has gained growing acceptance in legal education and that is helpful in advocating economics justice. Socio-economics approaches economic understanding much as Adam Smith did (before there were separate disciplines)...

One important duty of lawyers is to assist clients in identifying and securing their essential rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. One important purpose of legal education is to enable lawyers to assist clients and society in identifying and securing essential rights, responsibilities,...

One approach to analyzing inequality is to compare average economic choices from a classical theoretical framework. Another approach considers the impact of the formation of society, through statutes and institutions, on average economic outcomes. This paper studies the effects of slavery on...

A paradigm shift is underway. The corporation -- much reviled as an externalizing, short-termist, inward-focused, politically manipulative machine – is undergoing a fundamental change. A real metamorphosis.This is good news. Capitalism has developed mechanisms to start a transformation of the...

A paradigm shift is underway. The corporation - much reviled as an externalizing, short-termist, inward-focused, politically manipulative machine – is undergoing a radical change. A real metamorphosis. The driver has been the financial community’s recognition that ESG produces company value...

Analyses why we have a globalised economy that is so volatile and vulnerable, at the same time as it increases the gap between rich and poor, as well as producing such huge negative impacts on the environment. Also proposes a comprehensive plan for creating the right sort of globalised economy

The peer review process typically has multiple evaluators. Too often editors rely on the Union Heuristic, which requires authors to perform all requested tests and extensions suggested by referees and editors, with results confirming the paper’s message. The Union Heuristic is easy, but has...

<p>Despite the crucial importance of high quality reviewing for the scientific process, new scholars often learn how to do this based on casual advice and trial-and-error learning. We offer a checklist that helps referees systematically develop high quality referee reports and avoid some of the...</p>

Binary economics simultaneously offers a paradigm for understanding economic efficiency, growth, and justice that is foundationally distinct from classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, and socialist economics. First proposed by Louis Kelso, binary economics also offers a prescription for...