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,...

This is aimed to be a book manual and a book manual is always for students and other curious people. Economics of integration is sometimes called ‘European economics’, as improperly. But the real problem is elsewhere. A manual is likely to contain what everybody agrees as correct. Firstly,...

Our society is fundamentally changing. These days, almost nothing works without a computer chip. Processing power doubles every 18 months and will exceed the capabilities of human brains in about ten years from now. Some time ago, IBM's Big Blue computer already beat the best chess player....

In this paper I take a look at conceptualizing corporate responsibilities and introduce normative stakeholder dialogue as a means to assume responsibility before sketching out the main tenets of an emancipated corporation, a corporation that has freed itself from the normative heightening of...

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,...

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...

10.2 trillion dollars have been lost in the US alone in the past two years. 45% of world’s wealth has been destroyed and three of the largest bankruptcies in the US have occurred in the past year. Just as the majority of observers thought lessons from Enron had been learned, crisis has struck...

While the idea of freedom lies at the heart of our economic system, academic research has neglected to connect theories of the firm to freedom theory. To fill this void, the authors delineate two archetypes of freedom – quantitative and qualitative – and outline the consequences of the...

This was a triangulated study that examined coverage of political parties by the state-owned Daily Graphic during Ghana's 2008 electioneering campaigns. The purpose was to ascertain whether or not, the newspaper gave fair and balanced coverage to all political parties as it is constitutionally...