Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2024-05-09
Books mentioned on Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?
The employee ownership movement is growing, and one of its biggest champions is also a private equity heavyweight. Is this meaningful change, or just window dressing?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Wealth Supremacy
Discussed“Kelly is also the author of a book called Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crisis.”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Barbarians at the Gate
“The firm was immortalized in the 1989 book 'Barbarians at the Gate' about their leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.”